Stars at Noon

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Stars at Noon

R

2022

2h 17m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

Romance

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A young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua (Margaret Qualley) falls for an enigmatic Englishman (Joe Alwyn) who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, though, that he may be in even greater danger than she is.

Critics Consensus

With Stars at Noon, Claire Denis pairs hypnotic, heat-drenched atmospherics with frustrating narrative drift, leaving Margaret Qualley's magnetic performance to anchor a film that is as fascinating as it is opaque.

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Sophie Butcher

Empire Magazine

06/26/2023

2/5

Margaret Qualley is lively and engaging, but Stars At Noon is let down by a wearingly meandering plot and lacklustre chemistry.

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Jourdain Searles

Little White Lies

06/23/2023

4/5

Mysterious, opaque, probably worth revisiting down the road… a classic Claire Denis movie then.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

06/18/2023

4/5

Playing out in cheap motels with sweating walls, it’s a languid mood piece rather than a thriller, but one that leaves a sense of discomfort that creeps over the skin like a heat rash.

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Sammie Purcell

Rough Draft Atlanta

Jul 24

Qualley’s performance clashes with the relentless stillness of the film, the suffocating heat and the grinding pace that Denis wields like a weapon.

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Milana Vujkov

Lola On Film

09/30/2023

4/5

Moody, steamy, ambiguous [...] Denis’s latest is not the tour de force her breakthrough film was, yet it is made of the same elusive material, inhabiting a volatile liminal space, oozing sensual honesty.

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Hector A. Gonzalez

Loud and Clear Reviews

07/25/2023

4/5

Claire Denis dominates the balance of tenderness and civil restlessness in Stars at Noon, a sweaty and dreamlike political thriller.

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Hortensia

10/16/2022

Slow moving. Expected more action.

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Vinny

10/15/2022

This movie made no sense: no plot, no background, no character development, no storyline. 2.5 hours of our lives we will never get back.

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A.W. E

@A.W.E Dec 1

I could not figure out what the hell was going on in the background of Daniel until after 2 hours but what was obvious was his increasing popularity by every five minutes of screen time. Clearly it's a matter of survival and the raw depiction of doing anything to survive is the only remarkable stuff about this movie. Margaret Qualley's performance contributes a star to the movie. The fluctuation of suspense adds a half star. Then there's the premeditated symbiotic union of a stranded American journalist and a screwed up Agent.

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Eric S

@RT43150932 09/30/2024

This movie had no discernable plot and I really had no idea what was happening. Acting was fine but the dialogue was terrible and lack of any purpose just makes you want to turn it off the further you get into the movie. Lots of pointless nudity and more than a few "why the hell did that just happen" moments. Skip this and watch The Substance, you'll get just as much if not more Margarent Qualley nudity but accompanied by an actual plot.

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Aurora W

@RT47016238 09/11/2024

A classic Claire Denis movie

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Alec B

@Alec97 02/26/2024

Denis's desire to underplay the tension and the dialogue works here as does her heightening of the sexual material. It actually does make the characters more enduring.

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Synopsis

A young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua (Margaret Qualley) falls for an enigmatic Englishman (Joe Alwyn) who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, though, that he may be in even greater danger than she is.

Director: Claire Denis
Producer: Olivier Delbosc
Screenwriter: Andrew Litvack, Léa Mysius, Denis Johnson
Distributor: A24
Production Co: September Film Distribution, Ad Vitam, Arte France Cinema, Curiosa Films, Barnstormer Productions, Hypatia Films
Rating: R (Nudity|Language|Sexual Content|Some Violence)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 14, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 14, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $36.0K
Runtime: 2h 17m
Sound Mix: Digital 5.1
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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