Rotten
Director DeCubellis is frightfully beholden to the tropes of the genre, and the premise (involving blackmail, strange dares and an inexplicable horse story) is just not credible.
Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail
Manhattan Night
No reporter can resist a siren.
2016 · 1h 53m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Brian DeCubellis
Overview
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
35%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The thrilling twists and turns of Harrison's plot are here, but DeCubellis's hazy pacing drains the film of the book's zest. Though great material mishandled is frustrating to view, there are nonetheless some bright spots.
Bruce Diones, New Yorker
Rotten
It's pretty frustrating to watch a close-but-no-cigar movie like this.
Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
Fresh
It's not a great movie but a welcome one, if only for how it attempts to revive a whole genre.
Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
What sounds so delicious in the telling is pallid and ludicrous onscreen.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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