Echo Valley

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"Echo Valley is an effective thriller that blends emotional and narrative tension with strong performances and technical finesse.

While it doesn't break the conventions of the genre or explore all of its central themes in depth, it offers enough atmosphere, twists, and intensity to merit attention. Michael Pearce once again proves himself to be a filmmaker attuned to human complexity, even when working within the limits of genre cinema.

It may not be a memorable triumph as a whole, but it challenges the boundaries of love and morality through powerful turns by Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney, never losing the entertainment value needed to win over its target audience."

Rating: B

Julianne Moore certainly pulls out many of the stops here, but sadly thats not enough to keep this increasingly implausible family melodrama off the rocks. She (Kate) runs an equestrian centre thanks to a little largesse from her ex-husband (Kyle MacLachlan) but her heart isnt in it after the recent death of her wife. Just to add to her miseries, their addict daughter Claire (Sydney Sweeney) arrives on her doorstep, swiftly followed by her violent junkie boyfriend (Edmund Donovan) and then by their even more aggressive dealer Jackie (Domnhall Gleeson) which kickstarts a series of events that test the mettle of Kate and her sympathetic friend Leslie (Fiona Shaw). The thing is with this, the story is just too preposterous to be believable and...