The Girlfriend

...tillräckligt med intriger och visuell njutning för att motivera en titt.

...has lost little of the book’s psychological acuity and retained all of the suspense. Not one to watch with your sons, perhaps, but otherwise – enjoy.

...though nothing about it reinvents the wheel in terms of the thriller genre, it’s still a decent enough time. 

...is, at the end, escapist trash. But it’s glossy and richly satisfying trash, right up until the perfectly devilish epilogue.