Gone Girl and television series like Sharp Objects and
Big Little Lies, spawning a new era of psychological thrillers. A late addition to the pack:
The Woman in the Window, adapting A.J. Finn’s 2018 novel. The film, directed by Joe Wright (
Pride & Prejudice) with a screenplay by Tracy Letts (
Bug,
Killer Joe), was primarily filmed in 2018, but delayed by reshoots in 2019, and its planned 2020 theatrical release was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now releasing on Netflix, the film is a stylish, melodramatic addition to the thriller-adaptation trend, but it falls victim to Letts’ faithfulness to the original book.
the Danish black comedy
lot more.
To help you get a handle on what’s new and available, here are the movies you can watch with the click of a button this weekend.
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Where to watch it: In theaters and available to stream on HBO Max
Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures
Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars in director Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western action thriller
Those Who Wish Me Dead as Hannah Faber, a veteran survival expert and fire warden who takes a young boy named Connor (Finn Little) into her care after he witnesses his father’s murder. When the assassins set fire to the forest to smoke out the boy, it’s up to Hannah to deliver him to safety while outwitting their pursuers at every turn. From our review:
In ‘The Woman in the Window,’ Amy Adams plays an agoraphobic woman who may or may not witness a murder in the house across the street. Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Wyatt Russell, and Brian Tyree Henry also star.