Weekend Film Reviews

What We Do in the Shadows

Marketing campaigns can bring movie goers into theaters to see what the fuss is all about, but they can't generate the excitement of those rare occasions when audiences discover a movie on their own. A charming curiosity from New Zealand. One more riff on mythical bloodsuckers.

By Joe Morgenstern • Feb 21, 2015 • 3m Listen

What We Do in the Shadows is deadpan-droll, tonally flawless, graced with comic acting of a very high order and beguiling from the very first scene…

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Weekend Film Reviews

What We Do in the Shadows

Marketing campaigns can bring movie goers into theaters to see what the fuss is all about, but they can't generate the excitement of those rare occasions when audiences discover a movie on their own. A charming curiosity from New Zealand. One more riff on mythical bloodsuckers.

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Weekend Film Reviews

What We Do in the Shadows

Marketing campaigns can bring movie goers into theaters to see what the fuss is all about, but they can't generate the excitement of those rare occasions when audiences discover a movie on their own. A charming curiosity from New Zealand. One more riff on mythical bloodsuckers.

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