02 November 2015

Elephants on tiptoe

Meadowland

Crit
Golly, that was a cheery post-Mets World Series loss pick-me-up.

Parents' worst nightmare, as elementary schoolteacher Sarah (Olivia Wilde) and NYC beat cop Phil (Luke Wilson)'s little boy goes missing from a gas station bathroom in a safe-as-houses-looking leafy New Jersey suburb. The rest of the excruciating, compelling film follows each in a separate, manifestly unshared, unsharable hell. Brutally magnificent, largely down to the leads, especially Wilde, and a wonderful secondary cast including Elisabeth Moss, Giovanni Ribisi, Juno Temple, and John Leguizamo. You'll want a drink after; it's High West Double Rye for me.

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