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Above Suspicion

2019

Phillip Noyce

Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston, Thora Birch, Johnny Knoxville ...

4.7

962

Thriller. Drama It tells the chilling true story of a newly married FBI agent assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is a bizarre case of corruption and misogyny, and it deserves a substantial movie. Instead, we have this moderate one (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Craig D. Lindsey AV Club	"[It] is a major step down for everyone involved"
		Al Horner Empire	"What 'Above Suspicion' lacks in flashy direction, it makes up for in strong performances and gripping true-life material to draw from (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"It’s not dull, living up to the grabby, spoilers-upfront headline value of its 'Fed murders informant' premise. But it’s never emotionally involving either"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"[It] struggles to convince as a study in moral rot, and is equally underwhelming in its depiction of an unhappy woman trying to escape her dead-end existence"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Though tech values and supporting performances (...) are unimpeachable, 'Suspicion' doesn't conjure its setting as persuasively as some of the other drug-centric rural dramas we've seen lately"
		Chris Bright FilmInk	"Unoriginal and underwhelming (...) The reason it doesn’t work as a feature-length film is because everything happens so quickly"

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