Robert Pattinson gives a career-best performance as failed bank robber Connie, and it’s hard to think of another actor who could have played this character’s surface charms thinly veiling a twitchy, bug-eyed, desperate and entitled narcissist. Good Time also succeeds as a pointed satire of a contemporary culture some say is becoming more and more self-centered. This electrifying and fresh crime drama from brothers Ben Safdie and Josh Safdie can be enjoyed as pure escapism thanks to dazzling neon cinematography, a pulsing techno soundtrack and remarkable non-stop, forward-moving momentum.

Robert Pattinson in 'Good Time' (A24) 10. Related: The Steamiest Movies on Netflix Right Now German Max Riemelt ( Sense8) keeps up every step of the way as her chilling and multifaceted captor, but this is Palmer’s film, and it gave the dynamite actress long-relegated to playing love-interest side characters a serious calling card in Hollywood. It also differs from other films of its ilk in that this nightmare begins with genuine erotic tension and heat, a mutual attraction.Īussie-born Teresa Palmer of Hacksaw Ridge fame delivers a ripper of a performance as a victim suffering in stages not unlike the stages of grieving.

Though Australian director Cate Shortland‘s adaptation of Melanie Joosten‘s novel about a tourist imprisoned by a handsome teacher after a passionate one-night-stand is a thriller (quite heart-pounding at times), and much of the woman’s mistreatment is extremely hard to watch, this highly absorbing psychological drama stands out because it’s all about the characters and what’s going on in their heads. So abundant we might as well make them their own genre, movies about kidnapped females generally go one of two ways: It’s either all about the suspense, figuring out how and if she will get out-or there’s the nastier route, when some movies focus on a woman’s torture and humiliation, turning it into spectacle.

Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt in 'Berlin Syndrome' (eOne, Netflix) 8.

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