Karyn Kusama directs Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy Blanchard and John Carroll Lynch in this paranoid thriller where one man suspects dangerous ulterior motives at has ex wife’s awkward dinner.

One of those absolute little gems that you used to catch channel surfing late night but now have you can only hope Netflix puts up an enticing enough blurb to hook you away from its own brand box sets and rights to stream middling blockbusters. This is the kind of treat that makes that subscription worthwhile. A great little thriller filmed in Fincher’s trademark autumnal browns and yellows – also borrowing his Zodiac, who again turns in an exemplary performance not massively dissimilar in silent threat and menace. To reveal too much about what unfurls will ruin the drama, suffice to say Kusama’s on target direction tosses you about so you are never sure whether something terrible is genuinely about to occur… or you are being manipulated by the protagonist’s fear of interacting with old friends and strange new people into sharing his unwarranted paranoia.  A class act.

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