Fresh
A brilliantly constructed mystery.
C. Robert Cargill, Film.com
Shutter Island
Some places never let you go.
2010 · 2h 18m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Martin Scorsese
Overview
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Director and cast
- Martin Scorsese Director
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels
- Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule
- Ben Kingsley as Dr. John Cawley
- Emily Mortimer as Rachel Solando
- Max von Sydow as Dr. Naehring
- Michelle Williams as Dolores Chanal
- Patricia Clarkson Cast
- Jackie Earle Haley Cast
- Ted Levine Cast
- John Carroll Lynch Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As senseless, perverse and unwieldy as it undoubtedly is, Shutter Island might be Scorsese's most enjoyable film in a decade.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Rotten
It comes on strong, but in its bloody heart of hearts it's no more resonant than one of those old Vincent Price-Edgar Allan Poe contraptions - and less entertaining, too.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
Umberto Eco wrote, "Two cliches make us laugh but a hundred cliches move us, because we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion." Shutter Island is that reunion, and that shrine.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten
Sorry, but the late reward hardly justifies all that punishment.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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