A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow might not be all that she seems.
"Everyone needs a friend."
Top Billed Cast
Chloë Grace Moretz
Frances McCullen
Isabelle Huppert
Greta Hideg
Maika Monroe
Erica Penn
Colm Feore
Chris McCullen
Stephen Rea
Brian Cody
Zawe Ashton
Alexa Hammond
Jeff Hiller
Maitre D' Henri
Thaddeus Daniels
Officer Deroy
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
M Manuel São BentoVerified TMDB Critic
2019-04-17
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Every year, there are a couple of underrated and/or overlooked movies. Greta is 2019’s first film to belong to both categories. It was definitely overlooked since Hellboy stole the spotlight, and it’s also underrated based on online feedback. Critics being divisive is kind of expected, but audiences are disliking Greta more than the former group, which I find quite surprising. Nevertheless, I enjoyed a lot and that’s mostly due to the outstanding performances of its leads. Isabelle Huppert is incredible as Greta, a...
S Stephen CampbellVerified TMDB Critic
2019-08-22
**_Insubstantial and forgettable, but Huppert makes it moderately entertaining_**
> _The philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy; and he goes on to opine that one is twin fellow to the other; and draws from this the conclusion that all extremes of feeling are allied with madness._
- Virginia Woolf; _Orlando_ (1928)
In Claude Chabrol's _Violette Nozière_ (1978), Isabelle Huppert plays a prostitute who contracts syphilis from a client, tells her parents she inherited the disease from them, kills her father, tries to ki...
J JPV852Verified TMDB Critic
2019-08-28
Decent enough thriller but not especially memorable, though both Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz turned in fine performances. It's probably fine as a rental....
