Eliza Graves

...is the kind of hothouse psychological thriller that frames itself around unexpected reveals...

...this gloss on a much-adapted Edgar Allan Poe short story is a spirited gothic tale, played with welcome black humour.

You’ll watch this supremely entertaining danse macabre with the broadest of connoisseurial smiles.

...the production design may be authentic, and onecan admire Anderson’s desire to stay truthful with his period...

Interestingly positioned at the crossroads between conceding inmates as fearsome criminals and as victims, the movie hedges its bets.