Synopsis
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.
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Cast
- Emily BluntRachel Watson
- Rebecca FergusonAnna Watson
- Haley BennettMegan Hipwell
- Justin TherouxTom Watson
- Luke EvansScott Hipwell
- Allison JanneyDetective Sgt. Riley
- Edgar RamírezDr. Kamal Abdic
- Lisa KudrowMartha
- Laura PreponCathy
- Darren GoldsteinMan in the Suit
Recommendations
- 80
We Got This Covered
It might be a tad light when matched against the wittiest mysteries, but for all intents and purposes, The Girl On The Train is a tightly-wound Hitchcockian ride wrought with tension. Elements of voyeurism, self-loathing and murderous intent mix together in a volatile cocktail stirred gently by director Tate Taylor, who doesn’t dilute a single ingredient. - 70
Variety
As a big-screen thriller, The Girl on a Train is just so-so, but taken as 112 minutes of upscale psychodramatic confessional bad-behavior porn, it generates a voyeuristic zing that’s sure to carry audiences along. - 60
Time Out London
Like a fridge whose door’s been left open overnight, the film doesn’t feel chilly enough. It’s not terrible, but fans of the book may well be disappointed. - 60
CineVue
The Girl on the Train engages more than it rivets and brings goosebumps to skin more than chilling to the bone. - 60
The Telegraph
It’s as if the book has been given a full-body massage en route to the screen, teasing away some of the spinal kinks that actually made it interesting. - 60
Total Film
Guilty of being slavishly loyal, Taylor’s film never quite translates into the cinematic equivalent of Hawkins’ page-turner. Blunt, though, is excellent. - 40
The Guardian
The complicated web of narrator-switches, flashbacks and POV-shifts seems clotted and Emily Blunt – usually so witty and stylish – is landed with a whingy, relentlessly weepy role in which her nose hardly ever resumes its natural colour. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The puzzle of how the various personal and narrative pieces will eventually fit together exerts a smidgen of interest, but the characters are so dour and un-dimensional as to invite no curiosity about them.
