
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.... (Full plot summary below)
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A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.
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| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekIt is small of scale, budget and even of intentions. But like any act of the unthinkable, it looms large in the imagination. |
| New York Magazine/VultureDavid EdelsteinThe film is, in fact, a cunning exercise in subjectivity and withheld information--and once you accept those parameters, it’s riveting. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThis is a movie that's better left unexplained, since part of what is so breathtaking is Loktev's strength as a storyteller and Williams's expressiveness as an actor. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanTerror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating movie. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirDay Night Day Night has captured viewers' attention around the world for its remarkable craftsmanship, technical command and distinctive vision. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoWhy has She chosen to end her young life with a senseless act of mass murder? We never find out - which is a good thing. Too much information would only get in the way and lessen this compelling film's evocation of dread. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...there's something strangely fascinating about all of this... |
| Film Comment MagazineChris ChangViewers will find themselves asking "Why? Why? Why?" in a structural echo, perhaps, of the repetition in the film's title. |
| CinematicalNick SchagerBy taking such a detached perspective on the girl's quest, the entire project is reduced to an exercise in inconsequential imagination. |
| Apollo GuideDan JardineThe Day of the Jackal meets The Rapture in a bathtub full of barbiturates. |