Entertainment
The Woman in the Window review: A housebound thriller, starring Amy Adams as an agoraphobe, that’s too contrived to thrill – 9TheFIX
‘Too contrived to thrill’
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…
-
Noosa News9 hours agoWoman dead and man rushed to hospital with gunshot wound following crash near Aussie World on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast
-
General15 hours agoBoy dies after being trapped between rocks off NSW beach
-
Noosa News15 hours agoFarmer Fred Perry’s 30-year conservation project creates bird haven after years of ‘bashing and burning’
-
Noosa News15 hours agoDetectives continue to search for answers on Crystal Beale’s death