Synopsis
Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in her disappearance.
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Cast
- Guy PearceEvan Birch
- Pierce BrosnanMalloy
- Minnie DriverEllen Birch
- Alexandra ShippAnna
- Odeya RushJoyce Bonner
- Jamie KennedyRoss
- Clark GreggPaul
- Sean BlakemoreKillian
- Eliza PryorZelda Birch
- Noah Salsbury LipsonAdam Birch
Recommendations
- 60
Los Angeles Times
Director-editor Simon Kaijser takes an often choppy approach to the narrative, the catch-a-mouse symbolism is a bit heavy-handed and the ending could use more oomph. - 50
Slant Magazine
The film is ultimately tethered to the strictures of a procedural thriller, as it's rife with functional dialogue and plotting as well as forgettable aesthetics, which cumulatively reduce the existential calisthenics to filler. - 50
Movie Nation
Spinning Man keeps on spinning and keeps us interested, until that third act, when all this has to be resolved and the script tumbles all over itself ending, not ending and adding an epilogue that undoes the clumsy wrap-up concocted here. And here we are, a couple of hundred words later, and “forgettable” is still the label that best fits. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Only the talents of its estimable cast, also including Pierce Brosnan and Minnie Driver, manage to make it worth checking out. - 50
Variety
Spinning Man, like a film noir turned into a video game, winds up crafting a rickety atmosphere of deception out of the question of guilt or innocence. The result keeps you guessing, but it forgets to keep you caring. - 50
Observer
A thriller with no thrills. - 30
The New York Times
A few moody flashbacks and daydreams are presumably intended to add to the noirish sense of uncertainty and unease, but instead of intensifying the mystery, they dissipate it.
