Following the struggles and challenges of Emily Parris, a young teenager and beautiful girl, who reveals a secret world of girls, where they practice sexual assault.
The film has an odd pace to it, relying on genre expectations to hurtle headlong into the story initially, but it ultimately ends up defying those expectations with its messages about online bullying, predatory media and more.
While very nicely fashioned, winds up as an oddly prosaic cautionary tale dressed up in quasi-literary duds [with] the air of an upscale afterschool special.
The Sisterhood of Night actually holds enough interesting ideas for several movies, but they aren't always well served by Waechter's flashy, hyperkinetic style.
At its core, Sisterhood wants to be about reaching out and getting beyond the walls of misperception and miscommunication, but if you play too many shell games, finding that heart goes from being a genuine emotional odyssey to a cheap parlor trick.
It does offer an appreciably even-handed, non-judgmental panorama of teens and adults flailing their way toward a place of greater empathy and understanding ...
