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Out of the Blue

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United States · 2022
1h 45m
Director Neil LaBute
Starring Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson, Hank Azaria, Chase Sui Wonders
Genre Thriller, Romance

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Its dialogue is constructed in a way that would sound unnatural even in a daytime soap opera, and Kruger works her best to save it, but there’s only so much she can do. The story is so poorly developed it feels like an outline of a script, all in favor of a final plot twist that would be jaw-dropping…in the 1930s.

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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

The film’s simply a bit off-kilter—written with influences blatantly on its sleeves yet uninterested in subverting any assumptions that fact guarantees. I must be missing something.

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We Got This Covered by Martin Carr

There is something undeniably romantic about film noir that that makes Neil LaBute’s Out Of The Blue one of his most alluring cinematic concoctions to date.

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TheWrap by Robert Abele

Maybe if you hate movies, LaBute’s attempt to bore us to death with classic noir material is a nifty prank. For anyone else, you’re better off revisiting Garfield and Turner, or Stanwyck and MacMurray, or Hurt and Turner — or even “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.”

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Movie Nation by Roger Moore

The general idea here is a sound one, taking the conventions of a celebrated genre and sending them up. But LaBute’s incessant grasping for laughs out of “The Next Tuesday” and “Sometime After That” titles is instantly cloying.

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