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fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

Netflix's New Movie Adapts a Hit Book-and Makes Some Crucial Changes. It's Thrilling.

A cruise-ship thriller reworks Agatha Christie-style plotting with an unreliable, traumatized female narrator and star-driven casting that complicates characterization.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Row review impressive, largely unknown cast keep seagoing horror afloat

Row centers on a lone survivor whose unreliable account of an Atlantic rowing voyage blurs human malice and maritime peril amid impressive storm visuals.
fromInverse
1 month ago

5 Years Ago, A Misunderstood Director Adapted An Impossible Thriller

For a man who wrote an entire movie about how awful adapting a book into a movie can be, Charlie Kaufman has really developed it into a unique skill. The Oscar-winning screenwriter is best known for original stories like Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but he's recently branched out and adapted a children's book into the surprisingly cerebral animated movie Orion and the Dark.
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fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins Remakes the Family Drama

He'd been shooting large-format prints of lakes in Ontario, he explains, and was trying to capture the mist that rises off their mirrored surface at dawn. "It was really the fog that interested me-much more than the lakes," he says. "The right combination of fog and morning light and the lake reflecting it all was somehow very spooky and serene at the same time."
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