{"id":35270,"date":"2021-05-20T17:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35270"},"modified":"2021-05-20T17:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:51:56","slug":"the-woman-in-the-window-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/20\/the-woman-in-the-window-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman in the Window (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Joe Wright\u2019s \u201cThe Woman in the Window\u201d wears much of its influence and inspiration on its sleeve. Before we meet the character Anna, the camera pans past a still shot of Jimmy Stewart from \u201cRear Window.\u201d This sets the stage for a movie clearly influenced by Hitchcock\u2019s masterpiece that completely misses the mark on every level. Wright\u2019s film is a long troubled production that could have managed more editing here and there, as it\u2019s a sloppy, droning, and genre confused mess.<\/p>\n

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After losing touch with her estranged family, Dr. Anna Fox is a young woman stricken with PTSD and Agoraphobia. Confined to her sprawling brownstone house, a new family moves across the street that grabs her curiosity. After meeting the particularly unusual wife and befriending their son, Anna is convinced she\u2019s witnessed a murder. As she struggles to convince authorities of what she\u2019d witnessed, she begins to wonder if a crime really took place or if she\u2019s mentally spiraling in to disaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Woman in the Window\u201d has a serious identity crisis leaning heavily in to a clumsy mystery. There are so many red herrings introduced over the course of the narrative that become one exhausting fake out after another. Is Dave (Wyatt Russell) the downstairs tenant a bad man or not? Is he evil or not? Is he stalking Anna or not? Why should I care? Why does his back story matter so much only to be proven absolutely pointless when the climax rolls around? By the time Anna realizes what\u2019s happening I\u2019d completely checked out and was just waiting for it to come to an end.<\/p>\n

Joe Wright\u2019s often slick, somewhat pulpy direction is completely wasted on what is an absolute slog that lacks in any kind of tension, suspense, or chills.\u00a0None of the stakes feel high and nothing Anna ever does ever make us empathize with her as we\u2019re never quite sure where this is all leading. Is it one big paranoid delusion, or is there a real murderer afoot? I frankly was begging for the movie to just get to the point, and once it does, it\u2019s a cheap plot point tacked for the sake of rushing to the finish line. Speaking of wasted, the all star cast are pissed away in a flurry of pointless asides.<\/p>\n

Anthony Mackie and Jennifer Jason Leigh have glorified walk on cameos, Julianne Moore is a glorified plot device, and Gary Oldman tries to salvage such a silly character. \u201cThe Woman in the Window\u201d is a neat concept with obvious influence from Hitchcock, but it\u2019s such a miserable mess of a movie. It wants desperately to be a drama, a psychological thriller, and a murder mystery, and every time it seems to be going somewhere, it just completely rides off the rails.<\/p>\n

Streaming Exclusively on Netflix.<\/strong><\/p>\n