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Before I Go to Sleep

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United Kingdom, United States, France · 2014
Rated R · 1h 32m
Director Rowan Joffe
Starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Anne-Marie Duff
Genre Mystery, Thriller

A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

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Time Out London by Cath Clarke

As a thriller, Before I Go To Sleep is perfectly effective, but while director Rowan Joffe keeps the twists coming, something about Kidman’s blank, frosty performance is unconvincing.

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CineVue by Daniel Green

The only thing Joffe's Before I Go to Sleep has going in its favour is that it's too brief to really lull you into slumber - despite its best efforts,

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Variety by Guy Lodge

There’s perilously little playfulness to be found either in the script or its otherwise handsomely ashen cinematic treatment.

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Empire by Helen O'Hara

Strong performances keep the viewer guessing as much as our heroine, but the character drama recedes as the thriller element builds, to its detriment.

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TheWrap by James Rocchi

Before I Go To Sleep‘s combination of talents on both sides of the camera means that while it may not rocket you to the edge of your seat as quickly and cruelly as the recent “Gone Girl,” it's hardly a snooze.

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The Dissolve by Kate Erbland

Twist cinema at its most brainless, Rowan Jaffé’s blunt-force thriller Before I Go To Sleep appears to have forgotten that films about amnesia don’t render the audience incapable of recalling what’s happened from one scene to the next.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin

Writer-director Rowan Joffe’s adaptation of S.J. Watson’s bestseller honors the lurid spirit of the page-turner enough to satisfy fans, but he doesn’t transmute the material into something richer and deeper the way.

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore

Whatever twists this puzzle tosses at us, the film reminds us that a great actor, in close-up, telling a story with just her or his eyes, is still the greatest special effect the movies have to offer. This cast telling this story ensures us that nobody will be dozing off Before I Go to Sleep.

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