César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.
This is a crime story with little to no interest in the who or the why, but only the what and the how. It's a reverse-procedural, tracking not the solution of a crime, but all of its awful particulars.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
25 Oct 2012
rotten:
Mr. Balaguero is so overtaken by his villain that he becomes like Cesar, displaying an eagerness to play the role of tormentor, which kills both the movie's pleasure and its flickering political subtext.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
25 Oct 2012
fresh:
A nifty little thriller that dances on the boundary between plausible and preposterous.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
NPR,
25 Oct 2012
fresh:
"Sleep Tight" makes a sounder case for nocturnal Webcams than the "Paranormal Activity" franchise ever could.
– Sara Stewart,
New York Post,
26 Oct 2012
fresh:
Unsettling tale of obsession benefits from black-comic undercurrents.