Thriller Rated NR
“…takes a while to move beyond mere melodrama and reach a proper place of weirdness, but when it finally does, boy do things get bizarre.”
Thriller Rated R
“…captures the way adolescence blurs far more lines than the one between youth and adulthood.”
“As the twists piled on, I found them increasingly strained and eventually alienating.”
Overwrought to contemporary eyes, perhaps, but still troubling and, in its own way, powerful. Adapted from the Patrick Hamilton play, this 1944 screen version features Charles Boyer – baritone a-rumble and eyebrows a-wriggle – as Gregory Anton, new husband to Ingrid Bergman’s Paula Alquist. Paula has survived one trauma – as a child she discovered
Thriller Rated NC-17
"…wears its sleaze like a ratty stole dug out from a bin at the ‘thrifty.’"
“Larsson has whipped up something unique – Agatha Christie with techno Goths – yet this is unremarkable. If anything, the mixing of elements feels clumsy.
“…espionage drama as existential horror flick.
“With that frowning face – including a right eye that looks sleepy and a left one that looks crazed – Michael Shannon could play Jekyll and Hyde at the same exact time.
…centers on a cult, and by the movie’s end you feel as if you’ve been indoctrinated.
Thriller Rated PG-13
“…a paranoid disease thriller for our glocal age.
