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A Kind of Murder *** (2016, Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Vincent Kartheiser, Haley Bennett, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 12,229
Director Andy Goddard’s 2016 American psychological mystery thriller film A Kind of Murder is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1954 novel The Blunderer, and stars Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Vincent Kartheiser, Haley Bennett, and Eddie Marsan. It is a sleek and […]
Carol **** (2015, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler) – Movie Review
Todd Haynes revisits, sort of, the scene of his 2002 triumph, Far from Heaven, by filming Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian love story Carol. Haynes casts Cate Blanchett, one of the stars of his last movie I’m […]
The Two Faces of January **** (2014, Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac, Kirsten Dunst) – Movie Review
Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac are riveting in writer-director Hossein Amini’s tense, twisty and sleek adaptation of the 1964 Patricia Highsmith novel, filmed in the polished vintage-style Hitchcock mode. As usual, Viggo is particularly excellent as the […]
This Sweet Sickness [Dites-lui que je l’aime] **** (1977, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Claude Piéplu, Dominique Laffin) – Classic Movie Review 188
Gérard Depardieu stars as a dangerously disturbed young accountant in the 1977 French psychological thriller This Sweet Sickness [Dites-lui que je l’aime], a mesmerising study in obsession, sickness and despair adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel. […]
The American Friend [Der Amerikanische Freund] **** (1977, Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain) – Classic Movie Review 132
Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant, nail-biting 1974 bestselling thriller novel Ripley’s Game becomes Wim Wenders’s impressively slick and dark-toned 1977 film The American Friend [Der Amerikanische Freund]. Dennis Hopper stars as the talented Mr Tom Ripley. ‘There’s […]
Ripley’s Game **** (2002, John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Chiara Caselli) – Classic Movie Review 108
Patricia Highsmith’s distinguished, chilling crime novel Ripley’s Game (the third book in her Tom Ripley sequence) becomes a slick, polished and riveting pulp fiction thriller in 2002 in the expert hands of an unexpected film-maker […]
Strangers on a Train ***** (1951, Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, Howard St John) – Classic Movie Review 68
The inspired 1951 Alfred Hitchcock classic Strangers on a Train is quite simply the movie suspense thriller by which all others must be judged. After a hiatus in box-office successes, Hitchcock hit one of career […]