Deborah Ross

From the Gothic to the Goth

Shutter Island<br /> 15, Nationwide The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<br /> 18, Nationwide.

issue 13 March 2010

Shutter Island
15, Nationwide

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
18, Nationwide.

Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island is really rather outrageous. Thunder! Lightning! Crazies! Cliff drops! Creepy scientists! Nazis! It’s a madhouse thriller that plays like a wildly cranked-up B movie which, being Scorsese, must mean he intended it to play like a wildly cranked-up B movie.

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