Rating: 3.5/5 -- This tale of a man who can speak to the dead touches on everything from death and loneliness to the desperate, damaging need for male control in a relationship. Full Review

Rating: 3/5 -- Succeeds thanks to compelling lead performances, its inventive scenario and a social backdrop whereupon São Paulo is presented as a city awash with extraordinary levels of violence. Full Review

part Biutiful, part Dellamorte Dellamore, with an implacably vindictive ghost returning to reify the dysfunction that has taken possession of Stênio's unhappy home. It's a gory, unpredictable melodrama, where morality survives mortality. Full Review

While the dead may be responsible for The Nightshifter's punchier scares, it's unnerving in a quieter way to watch Stênio's personal descent. Full Review

Rating: 3.5/5 -- The tension is constant. Director Dennison Ramalho gives us mangled corpses, open graves and other, less familiar horrors, but there is a sense in which Stênio's woes are just one manifestation of a much deeper cultural malaise. Full Review

Rating: C -- Despite flashes of vicious inspiration, The Nightshifter is mostly content to pummel its distasteful protagonist with tiresome haunted-house shocks. Full Review

Rating: 7/10 -- It is the skill of the film-makers and the style of this Brazilian gem that should enable it to find an audience out of the festival and domestic circuit. Full Review