
The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson's life post-divorce. Every day, she takes the train in to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus on her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down -- Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfec... (Full plot summary below)
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The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson's life post-divorce. Every day, she takes the train in to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus on her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down -- Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. She has only a feeling: something bad happened. Then come the TV reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying to find out what happened to Megan, where she is, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing.
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| Irish IndependentPaul WhitingtonThings get pretty hammy towards the end, too, but perhaps that's to be expected in this kind of movie, which reminded me a bit of Gone Girl but also of enjoyably silly 80s thrillers like Fatal Attraction. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottThis conductor says get off the train. Your stop this weekend is The Girl on the Train. A terrific whodunnit-thriller that features the year's best acting so far. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenWomen finally wise up and take control at the very end of the story, and that is supposed to make up for all the voyeurism and passivity that goes before. I resent having to suffer through all that nonsense for such a brief payoff at the end. |
| ABC Radio BrisbaneMatthew ToomeyThe Girl on the Train offers intrigue and a few red herrings but doesn't provide a knockout punch. |
| EspinofMikel ZorrillaThe only good thing about this film is Blunt's work, but it's not enough to compensate how bad is this movie. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Showbiz JunkiesRebecca MurrayThe Girl on the Train is an absorbing, page-turning (or page-swiping) whodunit, but it doesn't have quite the same impact as a feature film. |
| Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonThe film never quite succeeds, simply because the book’s core virtues do not lend themselves to cinema. |
| Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)Greg MakiWith her boozy slur and the black holes in her memory, Rachel is the definition of "unreliable narrator," and the story works best when it unfolds from her blurry point of view. |
| The PlaylistKevin JagernauthKeeping things on the right side of watchable are the performances, none of which are particularly revelatory, but all of them serving the territory their role in the story requires. Blunt and Bennett both rise above the pack, but even so, the screenplay doesn’t give them dimension until almost too late. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Erin Free...a tough-minded, uncompromising film that unpicks the quiet horrors of suburban life... |