Thriller Archives - Movie Reviews by Todd Wofford

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Where Matt Damon goes, Jason Bourne must follow. -- Ancient proverb, probably. There's not much wrong with The Bourne Legacy, aside from its very existence. When Matt Damon stepped away after The Bourne Ultimatum,…

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Jun 2021

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The Misfits (2021)::rating::1.5

It only took 125 years of moviemaking, but The Misfits has finally given us the cinematic equivalent of a wet willie. That might sound a smidge dramatic, but after…

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May 2021

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Georgetown (2019)::rating::3.5

Some audiences may find this film to be too mannered and deliberate, but I enjoyed watching Christoph Waltz’s character spin the webs that will eventually ensnare him.

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May 2021

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Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)::rating::3

Good artists borrow; great artists steal. Pablo Picasso, maybe. In Those Who Wish Me Dead, writer-director Taylor Sheridan nicks so many ingredients from so many movies that it's kinda tricky…

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May 2021

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The Courier (2021)::rating::3.5

Wynne and Penkovsky were real men with everything to lose, and we feel real terror as they try to stay a step ahead of the KGB. The film occasionally…

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Apr 2021

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Vanquish (2021)::rating::0.5

Vanquish looks like it was funded with somebody’s allowance money. And if that were the case, if a bunch of plucky ragamuffins actually cobbled their lunch money to make…

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Apr 2021

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Nobody (2021)::rating::3.5

This is probably a good time to say it again: The gaudy goriness of Nobody ain’t for everybody. Lots of heads get blown off; bones are snapped like…

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Nov 2018

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The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018)::rating::3

I n The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--the first English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel series--director David Fincher and über-writer Steven Zallian built a thriller that smoldered with carefully-contained heat. The…

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Sep 2018

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Vertigo (1958)::rating::0

Vertigo is an odd, elliptical masterpiece that manages to somehow embody Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic eccentricities and yet stand apart from the rest of his sprawling filmography. It covers his familiar terrain…