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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100TheWrapMonica CastilloTheWrapMonica CastilloMidnight Family is both a compassionate portrait of a working-class family and a frightening ride through a broken healthcare system that risks the lives of both patients and providers like the Ochoa family.
- 100RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzThis is one of the great contemporary films about the look and feel of a big city after dark, luxuriating in the vastness of almost-empty avenues lit by buzzing streetlamps. It's a real-life answer to fiction movies like "Taxi Driver," "Bringing Out the Dead," "Collateral," "Nightcrawler" and "The Sweet Smell of Success."
- 90VarietyNick SchagerVarietyNick SchagerPortraits of institutional dysfunction don’t come much more urgent, and quietly bleak, than this.
- 83The A.V. ClubVikram MurthiThe A.V. ClubVikram MurthiTo his credit, Lorentzen never guides the audience’s moral response, allowing us to make up our minds about the Ochoas on a scene-by-scene basis. He also provides ample rationale for their actions by depicting their hand-to-mouth lifestyle alongside the on-the-job drudgery.
- 80Film ThreatLorry KiktaFilm ThreatLorry KiktaIt’s a very exciting, sad, yet extremely funny film.
- 75The PlaylistThe PlaylistA thrilling, subjective, portrait of one family’s attempts to navigate the corrupt economy of emergency health care while, also, providing much-needed services for a city desperately in need of EMTs.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenIt’s the mix of the humane and the calculating that gives the film its empathetic power.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreDirector Luke Lorentzen (“New York Cuts”) puts us in the front seat of the Med Care van staffed by the men of the Ochoa family, freelance entrepreneurs trying to feed and care for a big family from inside an ambulance. Their story has thrills and compassion, hard luck and grief.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThough its micro view limits its usefulness in big discussions of public policy — it's easy to imagine American partisans using it as evidence both for and against government-run health care — it is a vivid reminder that all such policies are lived out by millions of individuals, who die every day when things aren't well run.
- 70Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarLos Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarWhat’s indelible in this visceral chronicle is that more than profiting from human suffering, the Ochoas fill the gaps of economic inequality while doing good without reservation.