A pet pig, a cameo by Lauren Bacall as Paul's agent, a sickening ankle crunch, and one of the most harrowing manuscript-burning scenes this side of Little Women. But the unmistakable standout is Kathy Bates' breakthrough Oscar-winning performance.

| Oct 22, 2024

Misery is an excellent adaption of the similarly exceptional novel. Bates’ role cannot possibly be forgotten, so cannot be Caan’s. The film remains a classic must-watch and is an especially great position for a cold, long, winter evening.

| Original Score: A | Dec 27, 2023

Nerve wracking and intense, Misery loves the company it keeps, from Reiner to Bates to Nevada.

| Oct 31, 2022

The genius of Bates’s performance is the delicate balance that can tip without warning from sweetly cheerful to psychotic rage.

| Jul 26, 2022

The director of this film is Mr. Reiner, who was once Archie Bunker’s son-in-law, but whom we must now take seriously. In this picture, he manages to juggle the elements of surprise and suspense with remarkable dexterity.

| Apr 6, 2022

Reiner's ambitions to make a Hitchcockian thriller prevail and, on those terms, the film performs splendidly, ratcheting the suspense in scene after scene.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022

Expertly performed, Misery works because it hits the gas, let's go of the wheel, and sees what happens. It's engaging, taut, and miserable...in all the right ways.

| Oct 14, 2021

Rob Reiner's direction and William Goldman's script are serviceable, but what really puts Misery over the top are the performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2021

Casting Kathy Bates as Annie was certainly a culminating factor in the film's success but kudos must also go to William Goldman for coming up with a screenplay that just never lets up...

| Jun 10, 2021

It is hard to come by psychological thrillers like this nowadays - a film that makes you feel the anxiety and horror that the character is facing.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 11, 2021

One of those rare films capable of spending the entire running time focusing on the cat-and-mouse suspense between a superbly cinematic duo, without ever slowing down.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 15, 2020

All the psychological, emotional, and visceral angles of the horror are anchored to the performances of James Caan and Kathy Bates.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2019

Reiner's tense adaptation of Stephen King's first satisfying screen yarn in years is superbly paced, chock full of devilish plot twists and capable of lifting audiences inches off their seats.

| Feb 22, 2019

Reiner's film is an absolutely harrowing tale of fandom gone wrong and the damage that it can cause the artist.

| Jan 29, 2019

There's no evil, no zombies, no cursed MacGuffins, no serial killers-just a deranged lonely person and a self-regarding jerk. Together, they make terror.

| Jan 29, 2019

..a prescient prediction of the way fanboy culture would come to influence the creative process.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2017

The film hasn't any depth to speak of, but is consistently shrewd enough not to go totally obvious ways. And the audacity in casting Kathy Bates as the dotty fan pays considerable dividends.

| May 9, 2017

Among other things, Misery emerges as a great picture of fan obsession, and of that curious mix of hero-worship and hero-bashing personified in supermarket tabloids and trash 온라인카지노추천.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 14, 2014

Bates turns Wilkes into the nastiest nurse to reach the screen since Louise Fletcher tormented Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2013

Caan and Bates capture the movie's roguish spirit perfectly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2013