The Woman in the Window review: A housebound thriller, starring Amy Adams as an agoraphobe, that’s too contrived to thrill – 9TheFIX

Real-estate porn can work for a thriller or against it. Sometimes, it’s part of a movie’s mystery and allure: the luxe nooks and crannies where bad vibes can hide. (See Rosemary’s Baby or What Lies Beneath.)
But in The Woman in the Window, the stately Harlem brownstone in which Anna Fox (Amy Adams) lives is a movie set of such gloomy palatial grandeur that the place threatens to overwhelm everything that happens inside it.
Anna is a nervous wreck of an agoraphobe who hasn’t left the house in 10…

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