Genre Thriller
Chatroom
Chatroom might have been a little more provocative if it wasn’t based around a social phenomenon that died a death in the last decade.
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Inception
Inception feels like a classic-yet-cutting-edge blockbuster, and one that will likely be held as a benchmark for intelligent modern action films.
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Former prison cellmates Vic and Danny have hatched a plan: kidnap the daughter of a multi-millionaire and hold her to ransom for £2million.
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Shutter Island
Shutter Island is a faithful, detailed movie not set in 1954, but of 1954. Scorsese is fully flexing his cinephilic chops.
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Chloe
Whereas the original, Nathalie…, is virtually devoid of any tension and anticipation, Chloe is a Hitchcock thriller for the 21st century.
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Adapting any novel is a challenge; faithful readers can be very demanding, wanting films to live up to their high expectations.
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Edge Of Darkness
The Edge of Darkness is Mel’s first film in seven years, they announce like they’re not ashamed, and they’ve brought him out of cryonic storage to punch and pistol-whip sissies in the name of family values.
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The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me is an effective and haunting noir-ish experiment for which Winterbottom should largely be applauded.
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The Road
Any filmic adaptation of a loved and lauded novel inevitably draws intense scrutiny over its ‘faithfulness’ and rightly so; this, however, is arguably one of most impressive reincarnations I’ve ever seen.
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Sherlock Holmes
Ritchie has become known for his slightly off-beat films (when not helming catastrophic vanity projects), but there are few hints of anything outside of mainstream filmmaking in Sherlock Holmes.
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