Midnight Family: reviews

What the critics say average 8.6 from 7 outlets

• 10 The WrapMonica Castillo Midnight Family is both a compassionate portrait of a working-class family and a frightening ride through a broken healthcare system that risks the lives of both patients and providers like the Ochoa family. Read
• 10 Roger EbertMatt Zoller Seitz This is one of the great contemporary films about the look and feel of a big city after dark, luxuriating in the vastness of almost-empty avenues lit by buzzing streetlamps. It's a real-life answer to fiction movies like "Taxi Driver," "Bringing Out the Dead," "Collateral," "Nightcrawler" and "The Sweet Smell of Success." Read
• 9.0 VarietyNick Schager Portraits of institutional dysfunction don?t come much more urgent, and quietly bleak, than this. Read
• 8.3 The A.V. ClubVikram Murthi To his credit, Lorentzen never guides the audience?s moral response, allowing us to make up our minds about the Ochoas on a scene-by-scene basis. He also provides ample rationale for their actions by depicting their hand-to-mouth lifestyle alongside the on-the-job drudgery. Read
• 8.0 CriticLorry Kikta It?s a very exciting, sad, yet extremely funny film. Read
• 7.5 The Playlist A thrilling, subjective, portrait of one family?s attempts to navigate the corrupt economy of emergency health care while, also, providing much-needed services for a city desperately in need of EMTs. Read
• 7.5 CriticChuck Bowen It?s the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.