The Girl on the Train

Relentlessly grim yet unengaging, despite a committed performance from Emily Blunt at the centre of it.

Fractured narrative can work brilliantly when a master like Christopher Nolan is in charge. This just felt like a boilerplate chick-lit murder mystery thrown into a blender to hide the thinness...

ColinJ was right, there's nothing I would add.

The mystery man and the gone girl!

It is one of those films that I thought I saw everything from its trailer. Not just me, many others said the same. Those we were never read the original source. Yes, it was based on the book of the same name. I really liked it. Unpredictable, but once it rev...

Tortuous, tedious and unpleasant psychological crime drama

A divorced alcoholic (Emily Blunt) who regularly travels the train that parallels the Hudson River north of New York City is fixated on a house in her old neighborhood. When the woman of that house comes up missing, the girl on the ...

A very feminine film with a good mystery, but is no better due to several small problems and the total absence of dramatic tension.

Good books usually give rise to good films… if they have people who are skilled enough to translate them intelligently onto the screen. I heard great things abou...