‘The Night Clerk’: Film Review

In “The Night Clerk,” Tye Sheridan and a very busy Ana de Armas star as a hotel clerk with Asperger’s and the solicitous beauty who shows up after a murder.

The chemistry between Sheridan and de Armas is involving.

The casting of Helen Hunt as a enabling mother and John Leguizamo as a police detective holds promise.

And some of the choices by writer-director Michael Cristofer and cinematographer Noah Greenberg intrigue.

But the thriller — in theaters, on demand and available via digital HD on Feb.

21 — never tips into must-catch territory.Even before the death of a woman checked into the hotel, things get very strange very quickly.

Bart (Sheridan) spies on the guests, sometimes on his laptop during the nighttime hours at the suites-style hotel.

More often, as he sits in his basement-level apartment surveying an array of monitors that capture different angles on the mundane actions of travelers:

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