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Shirley

Thriller Drama Mystery

2020, Movie, 1h 47min

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Country: United States

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Reviews

Critic Sheila O'Malley

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With all her depression and drunkenness, Jackson is nobody's fool, and Moss never lets us forget the will of iron inside this often-incapacitated woman...

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Kimberley Jones

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...a multi-hyphenate head trip, with rambles into murder mystery (...), female intimacy and obsession, the cult of personality, and the life/death sentence of traditional domestic roles in the early Sixties.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic David Canfield

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...lures you back into the frenzy, a play of wits and deception where the game isn’t victory or even solace, really, but a state of survival that feels dementedly, horrifically true.

Read full review at Entertainment Weekly

Critic Roger Moore

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Young and Moss beautifully level-out and make real the uneven relationship that spins out of Shirley and Rose being thrown together.

Read full review at Movie Nation

Critic Benjamin Lee

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There’s a hypnotic perversity to the characters and how they interact, never meeting our expectations and Decker’s direction is equally peculiar and unpredictable.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Terri White

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The walls might not be able to talk, but they can sag and oppress and vibrate.

Read full review at Empire

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Shirley is a drama/thriller movie that tells the story of a young couple, Fred and Rose Nemser, who move into the home of the famous horror author Shirley Jackson and her husband, Stanley Hyman, a Bennington College professor. The couple is hoping to start a new life, but they soon find themselves caught up in a psycho-drama that inspires Jackson's next major novel. The movie explores themes of creativity, manipulation, and the blurring of reality and fiction. The film features an impressive cast, including Elisabeth Moss as Shirley Jackson, Michael Stuhlbarg as Stanley Hyman, Odessa Young as Rose Nemser/Paula, Logan Lerman as Fred Nemser, and Victoria Pedretti as Katherine. It is directed by Josephine Decker and written by Sarah Gubbins. Shirley has received critical acclaim for its unique blend of drama and thriller elements, as well as its exploration of the complex relationships between its characters. It has been described as "a fascinating and unsettling film" that "burrows deep into the psyche" (The New York Times) and "a tense, gripping thriller" that "will keep you on the edge of your seat" (Rolling Stone).