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Shutter Island

2010

Martin Scorsese

Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer ...

7.6

127,006

Thriller. Mystery "Shutter Island", an adaptation of another Dennis Lehane's novel ("Mystic River", "Gone Baby Gone"), is a psychological thriller set in 1954, DiCaprio will star as a U.S. Marshall, investigating the mysterious disappearance of a female inmate at a hospital for the criminally insane that presumably fled to the remote Shutter Island.

	Media	Author	Review
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"The legend gets in the way of the artist (...)' Scorsese needs to stop trying to make great movies. He should just try to make good movies"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Scorsese makes dark magic in this mesmerizing mind-bender. No one who lives and breathes movies would dream of missing it (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"It dazzles and provokes. (...) It's a nerve-twisting, tension-jammed exercise in pure paranoia and possibly Scorsese's most commercial film yet."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"Despite its flaws, Shutter Island is worth seeing for the palpably nightmarish and gothic world conceived by Scorsese. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There are thrilling visuals in 'Shutter Island' (...) It's all done with flawless directorial command (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The performances are solid and the directing is inspired (...) The silly twist ending is supremely exasperating (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"Scorsese’s talent for aligning the audience with a single character’s obsession pays off brilliantly as 'Shutter Island' unfolds"
		Kim Newman Empire	"'Shutter Island' offers sumptuous, enthralling, shivery gothic filmmaking (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"As subtle as a multi-barrel rocket launcher, it’s a chiller that’ll make you giggle, a psychological whodunnit that begs the question 'Why’dyuhmakeit?' (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Jonathan Romney The Independent	"There's little doubt that Scorsese knows exactly what he's doing (...) The film seems to be made from echoes of other works"

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