'The Night Clerk': Hitchcockian Premise, Half-Cocked Execution
A hotel clerk (Tye Sheridan) hides a secret during a murder investigation in a film that explores the affinity between cinema and voyeurism flatly and without nuance.
Everyday life is a big mystery to Bart, a 23-year-old hotel worker who describes himself as having Asperger syndrome. Yet The Night Clerk is such a tiny mystery that it barely intrigues at all. The film may intend to be a for the mini-cam era, but it lacks Hitchockian perplexity and perversity.
