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The Sisterhood Of Night
When a teenage girl says she';s the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial.
29 April 1999, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
28 June 1965, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
30 April 1998, Melbourne, Australia
17 May 1978, Brooklyn, New York, USA
7 March 1965, Manhattan, New York, USA
9 July 1995, Ilkley, Yorkshire, England, UK
3 August 1943, New York City, New York, USA
23 April 1977, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
April 16, 2015
At its core, Sisterhood wants to be about reaching out and getting beyond the walls of misperception and miscommunication, but if you play too many shell games, finding that heart goes from being a genuine emotional odyssey to a cheap parlor trick.
April 12, 2015
There's so much going on in the world of the Sisterhood ... the story starts to buckle under its own weight.
June 23, 2015
There are no cartoon Mean Girls here; instead, we get striking portraits of girls in pain, desperately grasping for coping mechanisms.
April 14, 2015
While very nicely fashioned, winds up as an oddly prosaic cautionary tale dressed up in quasi-literary duds [with] the air of an upscale afterschool special.
April 09, 2015
It's not quite The Crucible, but this Sisterhood works, creating a bit of poignant witchcraft of its own.
April 22, 2015
The plot's central elements are ones we've seen before, but Waechter's film puts a fresh, tautly wound spin on them.
April 15, 2015
It does offer an appreciably even-handed, non-judgmental panorama of teens and adults flailing their way toward a place of greater empathy and understanding ...
April 09, 2015
A spry, heartfelt first feature ...
January 01, 2016
The Sisterhood of Night actually holds enough interesting ideas for several movies, but they aren't always well served by Waechter's flashy, hyperkinetic style.
April 09, 2015
Caryn Waechter's debut feature is instead a piercing portrait of adolescent rebellion and alienation.
April 09, 2015
The film has an odd pace to it, relying on genre expectations to hurtle headlong into the story initially, but it ultimately ends up defying those expectations with its messages about online bullying, predatory media and more.
