“Nightlight” is a perfect example of a film with interesting
ideas that are totally smothered by poor execution. It is one of Roger’s most
timeless critical dictums that it is not what a movie is about but how it is
about it that matters. And while watching “Nightlight” I kept thinking about
elements of it that I liked but they were almost entirely conceptual. One
cannot judge a film by its concept but how the filmmakers execute it, and the
filmmaking here ranges from mediocre to remarkably aggravating to downright
hideous.
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