Film
Movie theaters, reviews and showtimes in New York, plus articles, trailers and more
- Home
- Box Office
- Listings
- Trailers
- Features
Bookmark this page- Edition:
The Lodger (2009)
Director: David Ondaatje
Movie review
From Time Out New York
This serial-killer procedural is about a West Hollywood slasher who apes Jack the Ripper, but the real crime is the travesty writer-director David Ondaatje perpetrates on Hitchcock. Like Hitch’s 1927 silent classic of the same name, The Lodger is based on a novella about a mysterious loner (Baker) who takes a couple’s spare room as a killing spree strikes the neighborhood. Alfred Molina has a fair stab as the cop on the case, but the script is stultifyingly clichéd, the execution atrociously attention-seeking, and the violence done to Hitch’s signature shots and motifs inexcusable.Author: Ben Walters
Time Out New York Issue 695: January 22 - 28 2009
Cast & crew
Director: David Ondaatje
Cast: Simon Baker, Hope Davis, Alfred Molina
Rated: R
Duration: 96 mins
US Release: Jan 23 2009
Most popular on this site
Features
To the letter
Forty years later, Costa-Gavras's Z still brims with fury.
Mind over matter
David Cronenberg reflects on a most bizarre body: his own corpus of work.
Fool's gold
Can an Oscar win lead to a cursed career? Here are five stories of postaward professional meltdowns.
We are the championed
Terrorists and teens abound in this year's "Film Comment Selects."
A history of violence
Matteo Garrone's kaleidoscopic Gomorrah wallops you with Italy's crime crisis.
True romantic
James Gray exchanges urban amorality for amour in Two Lovers.
Playing in the dark
MoMA salutes pianist Stuart Oderman's 50 years as the one-man sound of silents.
Junk bonds
Cast and crew recall the making of the classic NYC drug drama The Panic in Needle Park.
What do you think?
Post your review now