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My review of the surprisingly decent thriller, The Woman In The Window (2021) starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Fred Hechinger, Wyatt Russell, ...
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May 14, 2021 · So the story of a woman who doesn’t leave her house for 10 months and thinks she witnesses a murder across the street suddenly becomes more than just a well-made thriller with an outstanding ensemble cast.
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Nov 4, 2022 12:31 am
Posted: May 13, 2021 11:00 pm
The Woman in the Window is available exclusively on Netflix on May 14.
Delayed in production due to reshoots, then in release due to the pandemic, star-studded The Woman in the Window is now a standard slice of elevated pulp for Netflix. Based on the bestseller by A. J. Finn, the film's a stylistic homage to Hitchcock's Rear Window and other paranoid thrillers of yesteryear, flaunting its idolatry quite a bit, even having Amy Adams' character watch many of these cinema classics from the confined comfort of her couch. And yes, it's fun to watch famous faces go full-tilt with a camp thriller, one with echos of Hitchcock acolytes De Palma and Demme, but overall the story offers up very little in the way of substance or suspense.
Instead of being holed up because of an injury like James Stewart's protagonist in Rear Window, Adams plays a wallowing agoraphobe, Anna, who, in the midst of altering her medication (and drinking heavily while on said meds), believes to have uncovered a ruthless plot and a nefarious crime centered around the new family that's moved in across the street from her in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Beset on all sides by red herrings and notably haunted by a recent tragedy, Anna begins to unspool and unravel into the type of spiraling, self-destructive mess that Adams has perfected in recent years in Hillbilly Elegy and HBO's Sharp Objects.
The Woman in the Window has both flash and fizzle. Amy Adams is great in the lead role, presenting us with a shattered recluse who wages war on lucidity daily, but the rest of the cast, while noteworthy, are sort of relegated to being plot pawns. Still, if you're looking for a higher class of claustrophobic Noir, and don't care too much about the r...
May 14, 2021 · Violence, language, suspense in Hitchcock-inspired mystery. Read Common Sense Media's The Woman in the Window review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie
- Joe Wright
- Netflix
May 14, 2021 · Based on a 2018 book of the same name (and written by Daniel Mallory under the pseudonym A. J. Finn), The Woman in the Window is about as Hitchcockian as 21 st-century thrillers come. Its conceit owes a lot (and pays explicit homage to) Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window.
The Woman in the Window: Directed by Joe Wright. With Amy Adams, Fred Hechinger, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore. An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
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Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is an agoraphobic child psychologist who finds herself keeping tabs on the picture perfect family across the street through the windows of her New York City brownstone.
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