Shutter Island

Movie Ranked #195 | 2010 - Drama, Mystery, Thriller
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane c ... More from IMDb
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Best two reviews:
1) Charlotte Observer - When was the last time you had to wait until the final sentence of a film to understand all the details? When was the last time you went to a genre movie – or what looked like one in spooky trailers – and realized the director had fulfilled that promise and meditated on his favorite topic? Shutter Island does just that. (Rating: 100) Read Full Review >
2) The Onion (A.V. Club) - There’s a purpose to all this madness--though to talk about the primary reason the film succeeds would be giving the game away--but it should be appreciated first as a vivid, waking nightmare. (Rating: 91) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
32) San Francisco Chronicle - Scorsese stuffs the film with heavy-handed art direction and piles on a ludicrously ominous soundtrack. The soundtrack is a constant reminder of the movie's importance and only highlights its unimportance. (Rating: 25) Read Full Review >
33) The New York Times - Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself. (Rating: 20) Read Full Review >
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