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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Aug 2021

Though the bag of tricks that Bruckner (V/H/S, The Ritual) digs through — the jump scares and shadow figures, the eerily suspended rules…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Aug 2021

Rebecca Hall’s admirable refusal to soften the brittle edges of her recently widowed protagonist in The Night House makes her a compelling…

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By Chandler Levack (49) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 23 Aug 2021

It’s elegantly filmed and well constructed, building to a haunting climatic sequence that could sear your eyeballs…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 23 Aug 2021

Screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski lay the foundations for a conventionally well-built haunted-house chiller…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Screen Rant (892) on 22 Aug 2021

Uplifted by an incredible central performance by Hall, The Night House twists and turns, weaving terrifying visuals and jump-scares with thought-provoking…

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By Simran Hans (401) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 22 Aug 2021

The fuzzy plotting is balanced by Hall’s brilliantly controlled performance as the caustic, sceptical Beth, whose grief has pushed her to…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for Polygon (677) on 20 Aug 2021

The film weaves a study of what it means to discover you’ve built your life over an abyss into the fabric of a multiplex-friendly horror…

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By Yolanda Machado (67) for TheWrap (3,203) on 20 Aug 2021

The Night House works as an exploration of grief because of Rebecca Hall’s incredible performance, plain and simple…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 20 Aug 2021

Hall strives to carry The Night House on her more-than-capable shoulders, but she can’t quite compensate for the moments when the movie is…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Aug 2021

The director, David Bruckner, doesn’t just mindlessly apply the electrodes; even when he jars you to attention, he always seems to be drawing…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 19 Aug 2021

As the screenplay teases natural explanations for these sinister goings-on — Extreme grief? Nightmares? Mental illness…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Aug 2021

The film upends the clichés that practically define the ghost story in surprising and intriguing ways…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 19 Aug 2021

The sounds that go bump in the night, the wet footprints on a dock when no one else should be there, the writing in the fog on a shower mirror—these…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 19 Aug 2021

In The Night House, narratively faulty but full of insinuating shivers, Hall once again expands her range…

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By Lex Briscuso (44) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 19 Aug 2021

It’s a fun flick and some may still be drawn into The Night House’s mystery, but the film—and everyone at the heart of its conception—have…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 19 Aug 2021

Although let down by muddled plotting, The Night House is a low-key, well-made thoughtful horror flick, excellently played by Rebecca Hall…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 19 Aug 2021

Unfortunately, it’s a fairly unimaginative, largely unconvincing, often dull and always predictable example of the genre with few thrills…

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By Kim Hughes (164) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 18 Aug 2021

Taken either as a metaphor for mourning or as a straight-up fictional narrative with a paranormal bent, The Night House’s ending is as disturbing…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 18 Aug 2021

That energy placed into making the audience look and listen out to the edges of the film makes Beth's central placement even more vital and…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 18 Aug 2021

This is a creepily effective excursion into terror that, if watched alone in the dark, may generate post-movie jitters…

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