In My Sleep (2008)

Critic Reviews

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  Zzzzzzzz.

• Mike Hale, New York Times

  Meant to be Hitchcockian -- the writer and director, Allen Wolf, more or less says so in his director's statement -- and maybe it is, if you think of it as, say, Hitchcock's senior project for film school.

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  Did a hunky LA massage ther apist kill someone in their sleep? Perhaps the biggest problem with Allen Wolf's drowsy thriller In My Sleep is managing to stay awake long enough to find out.

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  Writer-director Allen Wolf loads In My Sleep with so much psychosexual baggage you wish he just focused on one emotional affliction to propel this mediocre whodunit.

• John Anderson, Variety

  Aspires to the noble tradition of L.A. film noir, but boasts all the cerebral and aesthetic restraint of a West Hollywood dance club.

• Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter

  A well-stirred titillation that will appeal to twentysomething audiences and movie-buff viewers who appreciate the pursued-pursuer, Hitchcockian style of suspenser.

• Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

  Little screen finesse to support Wolf's aspirations, leaving behind an ambitious but inept production that has difficulty maintaining chills, thrills, and, well, camera focus.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  Hideous-looking, poorly acted, nonsensical and a waste of actor Tony Hale (Buster from "Arrested Development"), "In My Sleep" could turn you into a sleepmoviegoer.

• Brent Simon, Shared Darkness

  For a while pulls levers of dramatic engagement competently if never rivetingly, but unravels into a labyrinthine tangle of soap-y contrivance and improbably centralized conflict.

• S. James Snyder, Time Out New York

  All the labored explanations (and tedious psychology) that follow the bad behavior and bloodshed make for a serious buzzkill.

• Vadim Rizov, L.A. Weekly

  The biggest problem with Allen Wolf's thriller is that there are so few characters, it's immediately clear what's going on; there's simply no one to suspect besides the obvious.

• Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

  An overstuffed Lifetime movie, if that network for women ever made movies about nice guys who happen to be sex-addicted murder suspects with a sleep disorder.

• John P. McCarthy, Boxoffice Magazine

  Melrose Place meets imitation Hitchcock.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  Spectacularly witless, In My Sleep is another depressing reminder of what happens when you give cameras to jocks.

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