Review of The Woman in the Window (2021) by Stefarooh — 17 May 2021
As pulpy thrillers with unreliable narrators go, this was a suspenseful blast (those critics that called it boring, I would imagine their entertaining would probably give me a heart attack) with a pretty satisfactory reveal at the end (as in it ties up all the loose ends and doesn't leave plot holes unanswered like lot of these thrillers tend to).
One thing I did find quite jarring was the final 20 or so min of the the film where it moves from moody set piece to all out horror movie but it certainly kept me on the edge of my seat. Never read the book so I can't compare the two mediums.
While there is nothing remarkably new about the story it's telling (it's literally a copy of a copy of a copy of countless other plots in this unreliable narrator genre all meshed into one), I found it to be well executed and acted (Oldman goes a bit overboard and chews the scenery whenever he's in it and Jennifer Jason Leigh who did "unhinged" to perfection in Single White Female barely registers here) and it has a menacing, almost claustrophobic atmosphere to it (which suits the theme of the film perfectly).
In other words, this is the perfect Friday night movie to jam to in these covid times.
This review of The Woman in the Window (2021) was written by Stefarooh on 17 May 2021.
The Woman in the Window has generally received mixed reviews.
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