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Feb 12, 2010 · So begins Shutter Island, an impeccably assembled genre thriller from Martin Scorsese that lets the Oscar-winning filmmaker pay painstaking homage to the Hollywood film noirs of the ’40s and...
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Feb 13, 2010 · In Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese builds a psychological thriller that looks intently at madness, and the blurring of reality and imagination that comes with it.
Shutter Island is a very well made film that captures the genre of mystery similar to the Twilight Zone episodes and the renowned Hitchcock films. Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13,...
Jul 3, 2020 · Scorsese’s now-classic 1991 remake of Cape Fear is perhaps its closest cousin, a lean, mean psychological thriller with disturbingly good lead performances and a incisive commentary on the ...
The implausible escape of a brilliant murderess brings U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) to Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like insane asylum ...
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Once you get past the trickery, Shutter Island offers sumptuous, enthralling, shivery gothic filmmaking with a hardboiled heart and a sly line in asylum humour. If a pot is being boiled, at least it’s an intricately-decorated pot on a spectacular fire. Read More. By Kim Newman FULL REVIEW.
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I loved this movie. Figured the twist out in the first five minutes of the movie, so the rest really dragged on for me. I enjoyed the cinematography and set design though. I think it's Scorsese trying to do a Sam Fuller type narrative, but it lacks the charm Fuller's movies have imo.