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TransSiberian

You can't escape your lies.

2008 · 1h 51m · R Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Brad Anderson

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Overview

A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.

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91%
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Rotten

Unfortunately, there's never a moment where you can't see Anderson and his co-writer, Will Conroy, yanking on the strings.

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Fresh

All in all, the film is an excellent, if modest, alternative for moviegoers who have been blockbustered into submission this summer.

Mike Mayo, Washington Post
Fresh

A thriller aboard the Trans-Siberian line, stretching roughly 5,000 miles from Beijing to Moscow, should be a cinch, right? Not so fast, Casey Jones.

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

Director Brad Anderson throws in a red herring or two as he comments on Eurotrash and the greed-fueled lawlessness of the former Soviet Union, but he ultimately makes an even stronger statement about the dark side of female empowerment.

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Fresh

As Alfred Hitchcock demonstrated three times, trains make a nifty setting for a thriller.

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

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