The Return

2006, Movie, 1h 25min

Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.

Country: United States

Director:

Asif Kapadia

Cast:

Sam Shepard,

Adam Scott,

Sarah Michelle Gellar,

Brad Leland

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4.7

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6.0

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Critic Keith Phipps

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...it's more haunting than it has any right to be, thanks to its love of long, lonesome highways and the way the violence of the past bleeds into the present.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Roger Ebert

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It is a Kafkaesque story, in which ominous things follow one another with a certain internal logic but make no sense at all.

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Critic James Dyer

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...a quiet and disquieting masterpiece which gets under your skin and stays there long after you leave the cinema.

Read full review at Empire

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