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The Two Faces Of January
In this film, Chester McFarland and his wife Colette arrived in Athens for sightseeing. At that time, the couple encounters a new encounter with Rydal, a young Greek-speaking American who acts as a tour guide. In the meantime, everyone tries to force Rydal afterwards to help Chester hide the body of the mabahith, which will turn things upside down.
18 August 1990, Germany
April 6, 1972 in Izmir, Turkey
20 October 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
24 March 1989, Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece
January 13, 2015
A handsome thriller with plot twists that don't always make sense, "The Two Faces of January," moves slowly, but ultimately entertains.
January 01, 2015
This is a well-written and well-acted movie. The relationships in the triangle at the center of the film are not easily made convincing, but excellent acting makes it work. This is a very solid thriller with a lot of compelling emotional complexity.
October 09, 2014
The movie never reaches a boil. Instead, it simmers and simmers until you're suddenly shocked at the hot water you're in.
December 09, 2014
Despite admirable moment-to-moment feats of actorly legerdemain from the primary and secondary cast alike, there's a deadly lack of heat. The costumes sing, the cigarettes fume. The simmer satisfies but never earns the tale's godless gloom.
June 13, 2016
It's a classy looking movie for sure, and as pleasant a travelogue as Ripley was in its day. But Highsmith's psychological edge is absent for much of this and its shade of noir has suffered a serious bleaching in all that Mediterranean sun.
December 11, 2014
Rather than rise, this story cools off, fading away into unconvincing, accidental tragedy and an attempted emotional coda that feels more stapled on than woven in.
October 16, 2014
At a certain point, it's akin to reading a mediocre murder mystery. You finish it because you're too far in to quit, as opposed to actually caring how things wrap up.
January 04, 2015
A perfectly ordinary, unexceptionally satisfactory film... does a fine job with the mechanics of the plot, but it whiffs a bit on the characters.
October 09, 2014
Things get awfully twisted under that hot Mediterranean sun.
October 10, 2014
What the movie lacks in suspense, it could make up for with erotic tension. That's missing, too.
December 11, 2014
[Hossein Amini's] polished storytelling carries this along, generally compensating for the mundane visuals and the actors' skilled but unmoored performances.
October 10, 2014
Everything about The Two Faces of January is right, even as the events it describes - a couple's idyllic Grecian holiday, a charming American's adventures abroad - go terribly wrong.