Night on Earth

...Jarmusch has extracted a coterie of vibrant performances here, simply by leaving his eclectic cast free to do their own thing...

Jarmusch is a poet of the night. Much of Night on Earth creates the same kind of lonely, elegaic, romantic mood as Mystery Train, his film about wanderers in nighttime Memphis.

As with the best short stories, the segments are less about plot (...) than they are about character, dialogue, and mood. Jarmusch is a master of all these elements, and clearly has an intuitive rapport withhis cast.