Sleepless's reviews
Media reviews
The A.V. Club
It does it's thing: just meaningless, nonstop violence and movement, enacted by a large cast of characters who are only looking out to survive into the next scene.
Variety
Vincent is in deep hot water, but there?s one problem that transcends all the others: He?s stuck in a movie that?s such a terse, minimalist litany of cop-movie clichés, with a script that minces no words because it barely bothers to come up with any, that almost nothing about his situation is very enjoyable
Los Angeles Times
But all that glitters is not gold, and at a certain point, Odar?s intense atmospherics ? amplified by the throbbing bass notes of Michael Kamm?s heavy, percussive score ? start to feel like the work of a filmmaker on genre autopilot
The Hollywood Reporter
Never rising above the level of generic B-movie, 'Sleepless' represents the sort of disposable fare typically dropped into theaters in January.
Indiewire
If 'Sleepless' feels like the microwaved leftovers of a dish that was designed to be swallowed whole, Foxx is the frozen part in the middle, the bite that makes you regret that someone tried to heat this up in the first place.
New York Times
'Sleepless', directed by Baran bo Odar, sets a low bar for itself, and then trips over it.