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Amy Adams headlines the under-delivering ‘The Woman in the Window’, a psychological-thriller riddled with clichés
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Amy Adams headlines the under-delivering ‘The Woman in the Window’, a psychological-thriller riddled with clichés
The Woman in the Window at first plot glance seems like a rendition of
The Girl on the Train. But it goes no deeper than that. Based on the eponymous book by AJ Finn, the film is directed by Joe Wright (
Pride and Prejudice,
Rolling Stone Menu ‘The Woman in the Window’: Amy Adams Gets Rear-Windowed
Adaptation of bestselling thriller about an agoraphobe who witnesses a murder gets the full A-list treatment and still feels curiously DOA
By Melinda Sue Gordon/Netflix Inc
The source material is a bestseller. The cast is A-list. The director is British and celebrated, the cinematographer is French and aces, and the screenwriter is a Pulitzer-winning playwright. There is, on the surface, no reason to think that
The Woman in the Window, the long-anticipated and even-longer-delayed adaptation of A.J. Finn’s 2018 prestige beach read, would not be the sort of movie designed to spike pulses whether you see it in theaters or at home on Netflix, on a plane or on a train, on a boat or with a goat. Which means if you choose to look at this curiously inoperative take on the book through a wineglass-half-full perspective that you technically get two mysteries in one with this tale o
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On screen, The Woman in the Window just lies there, static and dreary.
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After years of bad buzz, including disastrous test screenings, rewrites and reshoots, The Woman in the Window finally streams on Netflix to face the music from audiences.
It would be sweet to report that the film version of the bestselling 2018 thriller about a woman in jeopardy beat the jinx in a page-to-screen transfer as delicious as Gone Girl. But the result is more like Hollywood s botched take on The Girl on the Train dead on arrival.