Friday, April 05, 2024

PERFORMANCE: RIPLEY on Netflix

"That Netflix could just scoop up a show this good ...
 from a competitor that didn’t understand the treasure it had 
is a crime worthy of Tom Ripley himself.
 
"The movie is a masterpiece of Hitchcock-style suspense. It’s beautifully shot, and full of indelible performances .."
--Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone
 
"It's Impossibe to Overstate
Just How Good Ripley is "
--Nick Schager, Daily Beast 
 
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RIPLEY may be a generational touchstone.
 
If you barely remember the movie,
Andrew Scott will wipe it from memory.
 
An eight-part noir re-telling
of Patricia Highcliff's novels,
in Episode Five there is a grimly comic
sequence between a cat,
an elevator and a murderer
that Hitchcock might envy.

A binge-watch
worthy of the effort.
Streaming on Netflix.

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