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.”
Thriller Rated NR
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.
By 1964, it had become habit to psychoanalyze Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. So with Marine he seems to have decided to beat everyone to the punch. This is a crazed and lurid character portrait that spends most of its time psychoanalyzing itself. Tippi Hedren, having barely survived The Birds, stars as a serial thief who uses
