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Psychological thriller

Stoker

Directed by Park Chan-wook Written by Wentworth Miller Produced by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Bergen Swanson & Michael Costigan Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 98 min. Rated R With Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Jacki Weaver, Phyllis Somerville & Harmony Korine Stoker starts right off steeped in tragedy—an upper-middle class woman, Evelyn Stoker (Nicole […]

Side Effects

Directed by Steven Soderbergh Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Gregory Jacobs and Scott Z. Burns Written by Burns Released by Open Road Films USA. 106 min. Rated R Starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones & Vinessa Shaw Steven Soderbergh has threatened for some time now to quit making movies. His latest, the […]

Deadfall

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky Produced by Shelly Clippard, Ben Cosgrove, Gary Levinsohn & Todd Wagner Written by Zach Dean Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 95 min. Rated R With Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, Kris Kristofferson, Sissy Spacek, Kate Mara & Treat Williams Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde play brother and sister, Addison and […]

Compliance

Written & Directed by Craig Zobel Produced by Sophia Lin, Lisa Muskat, Tyler Davidson, Theo Sena & Zobel Released by Magnolia Pictures. USA. 90 min. Rated R With Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger & James McCaffrey Go see Compliance. Why? Because I told you to. If you still think that […]

The Woman in the Fifth

Written & Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, based on the novel by Douglas Kennedy Produced by Caroline Benjo & Carole Scotta; Released by ATO Pictures. France/Poland/UK. 83 min. Rated R With Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig, Delphine Chuillot & Samir Guesmi The basic plot of The Woman in the Fifth sounds like a psychological […]

The Hunter

Directed by Daniel Nettheim Produced by Vincent Sheehan Written by Alice Addison, original adaptation by Wain Fimeri and Nettheim, based on the novel by Julia Leigh Released by Magnolia Pictures Australia. 101 min. Rated R With Willem Dafoe, Frances O’Connor, Sam Neill, Finn Woodlock, Morgana Davies & Sullivan Stapleton The Hunter is set in motion […]

Brake

Directed by Gabe Torres Written by Timothy Mannion Produced by Torres, James Walker & Nathan West Released by IFC Films USA. 92 min.  Rated R With Stephen Dorff, Chyler Leigh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, J R Bourne, Tom Berenger, Bobby Tomberlin, Kali Rocha & King Orba At the start of Brake, Secret Service agent Jeremy Reins […]

Kill List

Directed by Ben Wheatley Produced by Claire Jones & Andre Starke Written by Wheatley & Amy Jump Released by Magnolia Pictures UK. 95 min. Not Rated With Neil Maskell, Harry Simpson, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer & Struan Rodger British director Ben Wheatley’s heady genre mashup Kill List is how midnight movies are supposed […]

The Divide

Directed by Xavier Gens Produced by Ross M. Dinerstein, Juliette Hagopian, Nathaniel Rollo & Darryn Welch Written by Karl Mueller & Eron Sheean Released by Anchor Bay Films Germany/USA/Canada. 122 min. Not rated With Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Courtney B. Vance, Iván González, Michael Eklund & Rosanna Arquette Like nothing so much as […]