Shutter Island
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
29 December 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
29 May 1957, Bellaire, Ohio, USA
30 December 1971, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
9 December 1954
5 March 1987, Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
August 02, 2012
Scorsese keeps the tension at a pitch of near-constant hysteria. Yet when the solution to the mystery is finally revealed, you're left with a sense of disappointment
November 05, 2011
... Shutter Island, the fourth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio, is the best work they have done together.
February 26, 2010
It comes on strong, but in its bloody heart of hearts it's no more resonant than one of those old Vincent Price-Edgar Allan Poe contraptions - and less entertaining, too.
April 04, 2011
Every detail of the production design is on point for maximum dread and psychic confusion.
February 19, 2010
Sorry, but the late reward hardly justifies all that punishment.
March 15, 2010
As senseless, perverse and unwieldy as it undoubtedly is, Shutter Island might be Scorsese's most enjoyable film in a decade.
February 19, 2010
A movie that keeps you guessing to the end and then -- miraculously -- makes the guessing pay off.
February 22, 2010
Umberto Eco wrote, "Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion." Shutter Island is that reunion, and that shrine.
February 10, 2012
Story quibbling aside, Shutter Island is high on atmosphere, in large part due to the visuals, and the collaboration between Scorsese and (Cinematographer) Robert Richardson actually feels like the two men having a blast with their craft.
March 30, 2011
As hard as Shutter Island works to convince you that is a dumb but flashy thriller when it is actually a fairly smart one, it may well be as hollow as any magic trick.
May 06, 2011
A brilliantly constructed mystery.
July 14, 2011
It's a strong and at times gripping offering from Hollywood's cosiest A-list filmmaker/star pairing.
