Prisoners (2013)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaaul, Paul Dano, Maria Bello, Viola Davis, Terence Howard
“They didn’t cry until I left them.” – Alex
PRISONERS’ is a crime thriller that asks tough fraking questions.
A tightly bound domestic nightmare that constricts around its subject with suffocating tension before taking its intense but familiar set up to a bleaker place. PRISONERS thrives on murkier morality than the genre usually dares, even when it loosens its grip with an uneven final quarter the emotional devastation and raging desperation of earlier scenes resonates.
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