Director Eugenio Mira manages to keep Grand Piano visually stimulating even when writer Damien Chazelle's script gets silly.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 9, 2017

Entertainingly preposterous ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2014

It's a crazy if occasionally engaging mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2014

Some inspired grace notes elevate a thriller that's more De Palma than Hitchcock.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2014

The filmmaking virtuosity is admirable, but in the end it's more flat than sharp.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2014

If you're willing to suspend your disbelief, this is a taut and inventive exercise in style over substance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2014

Preposterous, but much anxious fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 20, 2014

"Grand Piano" is an ambitious effort that plays dumb.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 20, 2014

Not all the right notes are hit in "Grand Piano," but for an elegantly schizoid B movie, it's more B-sharp than B-flat.

| Mar 13, 2014

This sly thriller overcomes its silly setup with a blend of cinematic artistry and fine-tuned tension.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2014

"Grand Piano" is a tidy and tension-filled exercise in terror that takes stage fright to literal extremes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2014

Once you accept that "Grand Piano" is B-movie pulp, there's a certain amount of fun to be had. This proudly old-fashioned movie will pull any trick in the book to hold your attention.

| Mar 6, 2014

The timbre and tone is one of relentless suspense, and Wood's slight frame and intense gaze are perfectly suited to the role.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2014

Grand Piano is a screenwriter's fantasy of a self-conscious Hitchcockian thriller, daringly written, improbably made - and more unbelievably made well.

| Mar 6, 2014

This thriller set in a concert hall is a stunt, but a damn good one. Maybe risk hasn't died yet in filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2014

With nearly a dozen production companies and financiers presenting it, "Piano" is nothing more than a way for moneyed muckety-mucks to be part of the movie biz.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 6, 2014

The only way I can make sense of this movie is to imagine it was made on a dare: Someone bet Spanish director/composer Eugenio Mira he couldn't do "Speed," but with a piano instead of a bus - and the guy likes to prove people wrong.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 5, 2014

The tempo is swift though the timbre is hollow in this superficially engrossing thriller, which channels the go-for-broke spirit of Brian De Palma and Dario Argento without quite attaining the same senses-altering fervor.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2014

Even after the story falls apart, you still feel you've seen something. Grand Piano has savoir-faire to burn.

| Mar 4, 2014

A not-quite-horror film, Eugenio Mira's appealingly absurd thriller sets out to tickle viewers rather than terrorize them.

| Mar 3, 2014