The Woman in the Window review: "Netflix movie is a modern, modest Hitchockian thriller"
Our Verdict Classy work from director and cast, but an anti-climactic second half doesn’t quite knit together the incident and intrigue. First, we had David Fincher’s take on Gone Girl. Then it was the slightly-less-good The Girl On The Train. And now comes The Woman In The Window, the latest bestseller-adapted, female-focused, A-list mystery thriller to land on our screens. Joe Wright’s long-delayed take on A.J. Finn’s novel was hampered first by re-shoots and the takeover of original backers Twentieth Century Fox. Then came the pandemic, which led to new owners Disney offering it up...