2010 · thriller · mystery
Shutter Island
Directed by Martin Scorsese2h 18m2010
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Our read: Shutter Island (2010) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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