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The Girl on the Train

2016

Tate Taylor

Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans ...

5.4

15,295

Thriller. Mystery A recent divorcée fantasizes about a couple whose house she passes each day on her commuter train ride. Soon, she becomes entangled in a mystery involving not only the couple, but her former husband and his new family.

	Author	Review
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Director Tate Taylor (...) deftly translates the bleak, raw-boned menace and tricky time signatures of Train’s intertwined plotlines, and draws remarkably vivid performances from his cast, particularly his two female leads"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A morose, grim and intensely one-dimensional thriller (...) the characters are so dour and un-dimensional as to invite no curiosity about them"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A fragmented thriller soap opera of sex, booze, violence, and postfeminist empathy (...) It generates a voyeuristic zing that’s sure to carry audiences along"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The complicated web of narrator-switches, flashbacks and POV-shifts seems clotted and Emily Blunt – usually so witty and stylish – is landed with a whingy, relentlessly weepy role (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Jonathan Pile Empire	"It’s not unimportant, but when location scouting is the most striking aspect of a film, something’s awry. And sadly this mystery fails to intrigue (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"Like a fridge whose door’s been left open overnight, the film doesn’t feel chilly enough. It’s not terrible, but fans of the book may well be disappointed (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A preposterous movie but not an unenjoyable one. If that sounds like faint praise, well, it is and it isn’t. There’s always something to be said for an entertainment that sustains its nuttiness all the way to its twisty finish."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The movie gives away the game faster than the novel, but Emily Blunt digs so deep into the role of a blackout drunk and maybe murderer that she raises 'Girl' to the level of spellbinder. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"Taylor is woefully incapable of unfolding the three-pronged, back-and-forth-in-time narrative with any coherence or artfulness"	NEG
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"The film never quite succeeds, simply because the book’s core virtues do not lend themselves to cinema"	NEU

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