The thriller is a mold that’s well worn, but not necessarily always tried and true. Some miss the mark, not being able to deliver an unpredictable and suspenseful experience. Damien Power’s No Exit may not seem unique when reading its synopsis, but it’s one of the best thrillers in a long time that focuses keenly on making sure its audience will never see what’s coming.
Based on the novel of the same name by Taylor Adams, the film begins at a rehab center where Darby (Havana Rose Liu) is staying. Eleven days sober doesn’t seem like much to celebrate, but it is for someone who possesses disbelief that the system built to help addicts like her doesn’t work. She makes it clear she doesn’t want to be there, creating tension during her support group meetings, but she has nowhere else to go. When...
Based on the novel of the same name by Taylor Adams, the film begins at a rehab center where Darby (Havana Rose Liu) is staying. Eleven days sober doesn’t seem like much to celebrate, but it is for someone who possesses disbelief that the system built to help addicts like her doesn’t work. She makes it clear she doesn’t want to be there, creating tension during her support group meetings, but she has nowhere else to go. When...
- 2/25/2022
- by Sara Clements
- DailyDead
When addicts lead stories, they’re not often heroes, and their arcs rarely stray from Sisyphean struggles against their drug(s) of choice. Those narratives are important in their own right, but it can also be refreshing to see addicts — who are, after all, just people — do something else.
Hulu’s “No Exit,” the second feature from director Damien Power (“Killing Ground”), offers its addict protagonist plenty to do, but it also puts her through an entirely different, at times garishly absurd, kind of hell.
The victim in question is Darby, a cynical young woman in the revolving door of recovery who busts out of rehab in Sacramento when she finds out her mother is dying in a Salt Lake City hospital. Just a few days sober and driving in a stolen car, her nerves are already worn thin by the time she’s stopped and directed to a rest...
Hulu’s “No Exit,” the second feature from director Damien Power (“Killing Ground”), offers its addict protagonist plenty to do, but it also puts her through an entirely different, at times garishly absurd, kind of hell.
The victim in question is Darby, a cynical young woman in the revolving door of recovery who busts out of rehab in Sacramento when she finds out her mother is dying in a Salt Lake City hospital. Just a few days sober and driving in a stolen car, her nerves are already worn thin by the time she’s stopped and directed to a rest...
- 2/25/2022
- by Lena Wilson
- The Wrap
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