Eileen (15)

★★★✭ Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie are captivating in this gripping 1960s-set dark and twisted neo-noir thriller from Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd. ~ Manchester Theatres.

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Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery.

In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works alongside colleagues who have ostracised her. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen becomes infatuated.

Just when the possibility of a salvational friendship (or maybe more) takes hold and forms a singular glimmer in Eileen’s darkness, her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime that alters all.

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★★★★ Anne Hathaway goes full Hitchcock in this psychosexual thriller. This adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel is not a story of repression, but something more prickly, more envious, and more dangerous. ~ The i.

★★★★ A stylish and captivating grim noir thriller set in 1960s small town Massachusetts. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ Anne Hathaway seduces and beguiles her way through a twisty thriller, an ice-cold noir in which two mysterious women let their lust draw them towards disturbing fates. ~ The Independent.

★★★★ An impressively crafted noir that skilfully captures isolation, dread and yearning. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ A film that grabs you by the collar and drags you into a hedge as you stroll uneasily down a lonely path. As Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie circle each other in a grimy dive bar, you can almost taste the stale nicotine. ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ Audacious and bold, Eileen is the perfect feel-bad movie for the festive season. ~ The Scotsman.