Whenever marketing materials label anything “a Hitchcockian thriller,” beware. The invoking of the great Sir Alfred’s name for any run-of-the-mill suspense drama should not imply it is on the level ...
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A break-in leads to a robbery leads to a kidnapping of sorts in “Windfall,” a jumbled daylit noir which has the bones of a Hitchcock thriller but the execution of something decidedly lesser. Jason ...
There’s an air of tense possibility during the opening title sequence of “Windfall,” a Netflix film that’s being rather boldly marketed as “a Hitchcockian thriller.” A single, static shot of a sunny ...
There are three characters in Windfall, and none of them have names: a wealthy tech CEO played by Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog), his wife, played by Lily Collins (Emily in Paris), and the man ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not that we’re supposed to overly attach ourselves to any one character in a film that doesn’t even grant them the courtesy of ...