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The Woman in the Window review - hitching a ride with Hitch
Joe Wright s derivative thriller squanders its impressive cast
by Adam SweetingSaturday, 15 May 2021
Amy Adams as Anna with Julianne Moore as Jane
Darkest Hour may have been director Joe Wright’s finest hour, but we can say for certain that, despite its impressive cast,
The Woman in the Window isn’t.
Darkest Hour may have been director Joe Wright’s finest hour, but we can say for certain that, despite its impressive cast,
Director Joe Wright knows the words to “Rear Window” and “Vertigo,” but not the music
Elizabeth Weitzman | May 13, 2021 @ 4:00 PM
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A B-movie effort from an A-list production team, Joe Wright’s “The Woman in the Window” buckles beneath its aspirations almost immediately.
Wright and screenwriter Tracy Letts have adapted Dan Mallory’s bestselling novel, which at one point was notorious for plagiarism accusations. (Mallory writes under the pseudonym A.J. Finn.) And the movie itself has been laboring under a shadow of a doubt since it was shot in 2018, which now feels like a lifetime ago.
After some retooling and shelf-sitting, it was acquired by Netflix and arrives with a single overarching ambition: to be considered Hitchcock-ian. Wright telegraphs this goal as clearly as he possibly can right from the start, his camera panning past an actual shot of Jimmy Stewart in “Rear Window” before sweeping up and down vertigo-inducing stairwells.
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.