Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Kara HaywardEmily Parris
- Georgie HenleyMary Warren
- Olivia DeJongeLavinia Hall
- Laura FraserRose Hall
- Kal PennGordy Gambhir
- Louis OzawaStanley Huang
- Morgan TurnerSarah
- Willa Cuthrell-TuttlemanCatherine Huang
- Gary WilmesPrincipal Harvey
- Neal HuffTom
Recommendations
- 75
Slant Magazine
The film is so unusually moving and penetrating because it refuses to cloud its emotions in distancing irony, anger, or nihilism. - 70
TheWrap
The Sisterhood of Night is too messy to qualify as a great film, especially when it begins introducing, in passing, peripheral characters who survived rape and incest, but it certainly isn’t muddled. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The Sisterhood of Night doesn't fully live up to its promise, with its themes never quite coming into focus. But along the way it presents a vivid depiction of teen angst that feels far realer than the usual exploitive Hollywood treatment. - 70
The New York Times
Even with sections recalling both “The Crucible” and an “Afterschool Special,” it still fashions a story that’s fairly fresh and often absorbing. - 60
The Dissolve
As silly as it is, Sisterhood is smart as well, about the modern draw of victimization and attention, and how people (not just girls, and not just teenagers) who live life on a perpetually scrolling online stage can become starved for validation in any form. - 60
Los Angeles Times
What director Caryn Waechter does best is artfully and lyrically capture moments of teenage abandon where the girls feel free, self-possessed and full of friendship love. - 50
Village Voice
It's a sweet, sympathetic film, based on wise and memorable material and featuring inspired performances from its teen cast, but it simply collapses. - 50
Variety
An alternately sensitive and heavy-handed small-town drama that turns the Salem witchcraft trials into a tenuous metaphor for the intense pressures brought to bear on today’s female youth.