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Posted inFilm Reviews

An Insipid, Cowardly Affair: ‘No Escape’ Wastes the Talents of Its Capable Stars

Owen Wilson and Lake Bell do “scared shitless” with the best of them in No Escape, an occasionally gripping but mostly silly American-tourist nightmare from director John Erick Dowdle. The movie offers some tense moments and decent sequences, but it becomes an insipid affair in the end—and all of Wilson and Bell’s bug-eyed hyperventilating is […]

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