Fresh
A thinking-man's women-in-jeopardy picture, Panic Room does about as much as humanly possible with its deliberately restricted one-setting premise.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Panic Room
It was supposed to be the safest room in the house.
2002 · 1h 51m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
David Fincher
Overview
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Director and cast
- David Fincher Director
- Jodie Foster as Meg Altman
- Kristen Stewart as Sarah Altman
- Forest Whitaker as Burnham
- Dwight Yoakam as Raoul
- Jared Leto as Junior
- Patrick Bauchau as Stephen Altman
- Ann Magnuson as Lydia Lynch
- Ian Buchanan as Evan Kurlander
- Andrew Kevin Walker as Sleepy Neighbor
- Paul Schulze as Officer Keeney
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Never averse to glistening darkness, meaty metaphor or grandiloquent technical display, Fincher is also surprisingly at home with hokum.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Fincher mounts some clever, tense sequences in which the trio devises increasingly threatening strategies to force Meg and Sarah out of the panic room, only to be matched with improvised ingenuity from behind the vault door.
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
There's just no denying Fincher's gifts. Give the guy a camera or two or three, millions upon millions of dollars and state-of-the-art technologies, and there's no stopping him.
Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
... one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers I've seen in quite a long time.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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