Adult thriller with stars lacks substance The girl isn’t gone. There’s one on the train, and there’s another in the window. “Woman in the Window,” based on A.J. Finn’s 2018 best-seller, is the latest adaptation in a run on female-led thrillers that have gone from page to screen with their intr
The Woman in the Window , an overstuffed, floridly preposterous psycho-thriller starring Amy Adams, is the kind of movie that would love to be described as Hitchcockian. But the resemblances are cosmetic at best; really, a better term might be “Hitchcocky,” which comes closer to capturing its brand of swaggering, self-conscious homage.
A meticulously controlled frenzy of a movie, it’s less interested in reproducing Hitch’s mastery of suspense than in repurposing his most famous twists and tropes, pelting you with strenuously clever parallels to Vertigo , Psycho and the like and that’s not even mentioning the lodger, the vanishing lady or one hell of a family plot.
The puzzling path of Netflix s much-delayed The Woman in the Window
Emily Yahr, The Washington Post
May 15, 2021
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From left, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Amy Adams, Gary Oldman and Wyatt Russell in The Woman in the Window. Netflix.
It s never an easy task to adapt a best-selling book into a movie, but sometimes the journey takes an especially long and winding path.
And then there s The Woman in the Window.
The Netflix psychological thriller, starring Amy Adams as an agoraphobic child psychologist who witnesses a brutal crime (or did she?), finally arrived on the streaming service Friday after a years-long journey that included an investigation into the author s falsehoods, extremely confused test audiences, reshoots, rewrites, a pandemic-related delay and a bombshell exposé about the executive producer.