France’s Isabelle Huppert, playing lonely and insane, elevates what is otherwise a B-movie Greta review – Isabelle Huppert gives scary crockery-smashing turn 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars.

7:22 PM PDT 9/6/2018 by Keith Uhlich FACEBOOK; TWITTER; EMAIL ME; Courtesy of TIFF . I honestly can't see this movie lasting long in theaters.For that it is too uneven and frankly just so-so. In GRETA, Frances (Chloe Grace Moretz) is a kind young woman who's trying to make a go of it in New York after her mother's recent death.She's working as a server in a restaurant and rooming with her friend Erica (Maika Monroe).On the subway, Frances finds a purse, and -- too nice to discard it and steal the money inside -- she decides to return it to the address on the driver's license inside. Read Peter Travers' review. Directed by Neil Jordan. With Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Jane Perry. "Greta" premiered at last Fall's Toronto International Film Festival, and it finally was released wide this weekend. The two become fast friends — but Greta’s maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta’s life is what it seems.

'Greta' gives Isabelle Huppert one hell of a horror-movie role as an unhinged woman stalking Chloë Grace Moretz. Greta sinks her claws in deep. Read Peter Travers' review. Greta seeks to exhume the skeleton of that basic plotline and resurrect it for today’s audiences. Frances even helps Greta adopt a dog. 'Greta': Film Review | TIFF 2018. FRENCH DRIP - My Review of GRETA (2 1/2 Stars) Thereâ(TM)s nothing wrong with a good pulpy thriller, but as the language of cinema has advanced, it sometimes takes a new approach to pop. The new Neil Jordan film, “Greta,” stars Chloë Grace Moretz as Frances, a Bostonian and a Smith graduate, whose mother has recently died. Greta (2019) – movie review Living in Europe, specifically in Italy, we don’t often get the same release dates for American movies as the United States. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 60%, based on 236 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10.

Of course this movie wouldn't be billed as a thriller were Greta a nice but lonely woman just looking for companionship. The website's critical consensus reads, "A bonkers B movie that's occasionally elevated by its A-list talent, Greta dives headlong into camp and struggles to … Sure enough, Frances figures out that Greta is a malevolent figure who has lured people into this kind of trap before—but by the time she's done the mental math, it's too late to save herself.

For the movie’s first half, director Neil Jordan does a reasonably good job of it.

Then, unfortunately, he falls victim to the most dreaded of horror movie clichés: supposedly smart … Grrrl power. A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her. @heavier_things Sun … Having lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The Friday early evening screening where I saw this at here in Cincinnati was attended poorly (6 people, including myself). Greta review: Isabelle Huppert gives one of her most terrifying performances in this horror-thriller On one level, this is a psychodrama about grief Geoffrey Macnab @TheIndyFilm Greta review – effective B-movie madness Isabelle Huppert’s unhinged central performance lifts Neil Jordan’s solid genre thriller Simran Hans.

Thriller ‘Greta’ gets weird, but that’s a good thing.