Marnie Wright News Today

While everybody else is trying to act guilty or weird enough to be a possible murder suspect, Amy Adams keeps her head down and plays everything for emotional honesty. It’s a losing proposition.

Everything has a chance to go wrong with a movie long before the actors show up. The latest proof of this truth just Taken from a bestselling novel by Daniel Mallory writing under the pseudonym A.J. Finn, “The Woman in the Window” comes from director Joe Wright. Like all filmmakers he is fallible. He also has “Atonement,” the supple 2005 “Pride & Prejudice” and “Darkest Hour,” for which Gary Oldman won an Oscar, on his resume. The novel, about an agorapho...