Review: 'The Vast of Night' is an ingenious, beautifully crafted ode to 1950s sci-fi paranoia
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
May 28, 2020
3 minutes
The first thing you see in "The Vast of Night," Andrew Patterson's ingenious and surprising debut feature, is an old 1950s-style TV set broadcasting a show called "Paradox Theater." It's clearly modeled on classic anthology series like "The Twilight Zone," complete with portentous Rod Serling-esque narration that ushers us into "a realm between clandestine and forgotten," then goes on to rattle off nearly half a dozen charmingly overwrought synonyms, including "a frequency caught between logic and myth."
Forced to supply my own description, I'd say that "The Vast of Night" exists somewhere at the intersection
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