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Shut In

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France, Canada, United States · 2016
Rated PG-13 · 1h 31m
Director Farren Blackburn
Starring Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt, David Cubitt, Jacob Tremblay
Genre Drama, Thriller

A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.

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Time Out by

Watts does her usual commendable job with the flatly written character but ultimately, as the title would suggest, she runs into a wall.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Bill Zwecker

This is a disappointing waste of good acting talent, coupled with a very pedantic and not very intriguing story from first-time screenwriter Christina Hodson.

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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

In this achingly inept thriller, you will see Naomi Watts do what she can to sell a plot of such preposterousness that the derisory laughter around me began barely 20 minutes in.

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Variety by Joe Leydon

As thrillers go, Shut In is conspicuously short of thrills. It’s an undistinguished and predictable hodgepodge, so blandly generic as to suggest that it was cobbled together by filmmakers referencing a how-to handbook who picked spare parts from other, better thrillers.

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Los Angeles Times by Kimber Myers

Despite a strong effort from Naomi Watts, Shut In is more effective as a 90-minute commercial for the L.L. Bean aesthetic than as a pseudo-psychological thriller.

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Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

Regardless, the upside is that Shut In is cinematic Sominex for those in need of a 90-minute nap, a thousand yawns, and zero thrills.

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RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski

The kind of lazy genre hackwork that will inspire more yawns than screams—at least until the final reels, when the sounds of incredulous laughter will no doubt take over.

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TheWrap by Sam Fragoso

Ideologically, morally, and narratively, the film contains no point of view, no perspective that suggests human beings joined forces to create a piece of art they can stand behind.

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