The Woman in the Window (2021) Netflix Movie Review

 hey what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again with a brand new netflix early movie review and today we're discussing the new psychological thriller by the name of the woman in the window which will be coming to netflix this friday may 14th now i got the chance to check it out early and i'm really excited to let you all know what i thought about this movie and if you also check it out in the spoiler free review before we dive into it make sure you're following

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ago netflix picked it up and here we are discussing it starting off with my positives look man i'm gonna be honest i was pretty invested in this story this is a psychological thriller and i love a good thriller and a good psychological one at that so briefly just to give you all the synopsis of this film a agoraphobic woman living alone in new york city begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence it is in that synopsis is in those characters it's in their backstories that you learned in the film that really got me invested in this film and it's just like for example meeting our main character anna played by the incredible amy adams who we'll talk about here in a second it's meeting anna and seeing her deal with this anxiety to not want to go outside and seeing her deal with the pressures of just recently separating from her husband played by anthony mackie and her young daughter seeing her deal with all that in the meantime taking these new pills is really kind of messing with her head and this is like do you believe her do you not believe her that got me so invested it's meeting the characters like the russells who just moved across the street you know we have gary oman as the head of the family we have his young son as well as his wife played by julianne moore and it's just like the mystery of this family can you believe them is there some skeletons in their closet you meet a character like david who's the tenant who lives in the basement of amy adams who has some things that he's kind of keeping a secret so it's all that stuff that made it such a thrill ride to watch this film and just kind of going back and kind of pointing out the performance starting off with again i can't stress enough i'm such a big fan of amy adams i think she's one of the best actresses working alive and i love seeing her in dramas i love seeing her in anything but give me an amy adams drama sign me up and seeing her character anna deal with this various levels of depression dealing with this anxiety not wanting to go outside and you learn why she doesn't want to go outside and where that anxiety comes from and when we see kind of that moment it's a really good dramatic moment it's an earned moment it's an emotional moment but just kind of looking at her character you felt at least for me this sense of helplessness you felt this sense of loneliness and when it comes to the telling kind of unraveling and her being so convincing and conveying this character in regards to you want to trust her you want to believe everything she has to say but you know that these numes that she's been put on is really screwing up her head so it's just that emotional roller coaster that you're going through with this character that made it such a thrill ride and again amy adams just slays his role she truly conveys this woman that's tackling with emotional issues uh as well as the the the stuff that she's going through mentally and she does such a great job in this role and i also want to point out you know this this cast is stellar man a gary oman you have a jennifer lee you have a julianne moore you have brian tyree henry we have white russell anthony mackie i mean this cast goes on for days and it's in those little smaller performances we don't get and i'll talk about that a little bit later as much from the supporting cast but when they're on screen they make their presence failed and particularly going back to the legend himself gary olman as mr russell he is that he plays the role perfectly because he's that one guy that from the appearance he seems to have all his things in order his family seems to be loving and whatnot but you know that he has this type of behind closed doors as morning appears and moore's than meets the eye he really kind of conveys that character pretty perfectly as well as other supporting characters like white russell who has a small role but he is i'm always impressed by wyatt russell i can't believe this film has not one but two captain americas in this film but i thought that he had an interesting element of surprise with his character david again david is the person that lives in the basement of anna and he has um a bit of a temper on him and i'll just kind of leave it at that but also some skeletons in his closet and then you transition to a character that you kind of really kind of root for and you and you feel like he wants to help out anna and that's detective little played by the incredible brian tyree henry so again even though not all those characters supporting characters have the biggest most medius role in this film they leave a pretty good impression and that's just to name some of the character everyone else in this evolved this film did a pretty good job which brings me to the director of this film joe wright who i personally thought had a really strong direction within this film and i thought it was a concise direction as well he really did a good job of capturing this sense of confusion as well as really adding in almost like this play-like this stage-like play approach was kind of a grandiosa approach to the story and i really approached i really enjoyed the way he directed this film and i also have to applaud the set design uh this the creation of the house was really kind of a symbol of what amy adams character animal was going through it's just nice beautiful house but it's kind of not being kept well up up to date there's mold in the house the carpet's a little bit dirty there's dishes all over the place which really kind of speaks to her mental state so i really enjoyed how the house kind of represented her mindset and also i have to pay i i really want to i appreciate it being a psychological thriller fan all the different homages paid to classic thriller psychological thrillers in particularly 1954's alfred hitchcock's rear window this this film not only uh pays homage to but there's literally a scene in the film that shows amy adams character watching so i really kind of appreciate being a fan of this genre and lastly the score the composer of this film the legend annie elfman composed this film and he added another layer and dimensions to this film and really kind of brought out the mysterious kind of elements within this film so a lot of good things to say about the film i do have some criticisms that i'm going to kind of mention here i'll go into first and foremost more times than not when you have a ensemble cast like this someone's going to get the short end and the stick and just me being selfishly a fan of all these actors there are some actors that i wish had a little bit more to do in the film i mentioned gary oldman brian terry henry anthony mackie wyatt russell again they make their presence feel but i just wish they had a little bit more to add to the film because again this is personally being shellfish i'm a fan of those actors i just wanted a little bit more from their roles but the one thing that i do that i did have a problem with with this film the first act very compelling second act ramps things up the thriller aspect the mysteries the twists the turns the reveals come and kind of really come through in that second half there's a moment in the third act and i won't give too much away but it's a tonal shift from we're going from psychological thriller to kind of a straight-up slasher almost horror film which i'm a big horror fan but the handling of that felt a little clunky it felt the kind of felt force now i said that this film was plagued by some reshoots i feel like the third act was kind of plagued by reshoots because it felt like it was kind of misplaced and kind of came out of left field and i just say not only did i not feel like the scene fit but the actor opposite of anna's character played by amy adams the actor in this particular scene i wasn't a fan of the switch it was almost too hammy and it just kind of felt force and i just wasn't a fan and it's like maybe about a 10 minute moment in the third act which things are kind of ramping up at this point you get a big moment you get a really sad emotional moment but it's in that 10 minute scene and when you see the film you'll know what i'm talking about it just didn't work for me personally but that was probably my only gripe that i really had with the film so before i give you my overall thoughts and my score for this film make sure to like the video share the video leave your thoughts in the comments and of course subscribe to the channel if you haven't already hit the bell that way you don't miss any other content with all that being said overall this is a throwback psychological thriller that kept me invested and engaged throughout my viewing experience amy adams delivers a real and honest and believable performance as well as the stellar cast the direction was great the score and the set design was another added layer of appreciation the third act takes a bit of a dip in the storytelling but still managed to end on a high conclusion with that being said i'm gonna give the woman in the window a solid three and a half out of five now again based on delays reshoots not having the best uh you know test screening i was pleasantly surprised by this film and as a fan of psychological thrillers i was pretty invested with this movie so that's my thoughts on this film let me know what you all thought of it once you've seen it what'd you think of the performance the storytelling the direction the set design what were some of your criticisms let's talk about it all in the comments below again make sure to like share comment subscribe hit the bell that way you don't miss any other content there's a lot of stuff that's coming out in the coming days so i hope you all are checking out my other reviews that i've done for movies as well as tv shows so thank you guys for watching this review hope you're staying safe we'll see you in the next video