The Girl on the Train's reviews
Media reviews
Entertainment Weekly
[Taylor] deftly translates the bleak, raw-boned menace and tricky time signatures of Train?s intertwined plotlines, and draws remarkably vivid performances from his cast, particularly his two female leads.
Rolling Stone
That's Emily Blunt, and she is perfection, playing the hell out of this blackout drunk and adding a touch of welcome empathy.
Variety
As a big-screen thriller, The Girl on a Train is just so-so, but taken as 112 minutes of upscale psychodramatic confessional bad-behavior porn, it generates a voyeuristic zing that?s sure to carry audiences along.
The Telegraph
It?s as if the book has been given a full-body massage en route to the screen, teasing away some of the spinal kinks that actually made it interesting.
Time Out
Like a fridge whose door?s been left open overnight, the film doesn?t feel chilly enough. It?s not terrible, but fans of the book may well be disappointed.
New York Post
Lacking either the narrative shiftiness or the trashy thrills of 'Gone Girl', this one is the kind of flick few will watch twice: It has about as many twists and turns as an L. The third act of a movie shouldn?t make you feel as though the first two acts were a waste of time.
The Washington Post
Even viewers who are mildly diverted by the whodunit angle are unlikely to find themselves emotionally engaged in the outcome.
The Wrap
The overall mood created by the crummy, pinched visuals and logic-strained rhythm is of something scanned and discarded, like a tabloid article or a Lifetime movie.