Windfall Reviews
Short, sharp and mostly satisfying, this is a thriller that sticks to the stripped-back fundamentals of the genre — no more, no less.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2022
It should be commended, however, for making its flawless setting as claustrophobic for us as it is for the three characters.
| Original Score: C | Mar 18, 2022
Theres at least one great performance in here, and the whole venture clocks in at a blissfully brief 90 minutes or so.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2022
Windfall has a difficult time landing on the right tone or getting a bead on its characters.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2022
A well-done, stripped-down thriller.
| Mar 18, 2022
A character-driven drama driven by characters that have fallen asleep at the wheel, the film tanked by an alarming overestimation of how much interest we’ll have in what three mostly uninteresting people have to say and do.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2022
Windfall is a disposable and eye-rolling endeavour that will have you re-evaluating your household streaming budget.
| Mar 18, 2022
Sometimes tense, often comically absurd and always engrossing...
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2022
“Windfall” is, throughout, a top-notch actors’ showcase.
| Mar 18, 2022
It hangs on a character turn that doesn't feel earned, and despite solid performances from its small cast, ends up feeling slight.
| Original Score: C | Mar 18, 2022
An itchy, underdeveloped chamber piece whose sour tone aims for something between social satire and neo-noir thriller, but lands mostly on real estate porn.
| Original Score: C- | Mar 18, 2022
Victim-aggressor dynamics aren't all they initially seem in this lean, mean domestic hostage story from director Charlie McDowell and 'Se7en' writer Andrew Kevin Walker.
| Mar 18, 2022
This is a sharply directed and well-acted project that makes a virtue of its modest concept.
| Mar 18, 2022
In the end, about the only thing that could have saved “Windfall” was a really good ending. But what we get is something gimmicky that makes no psychological sense and that the actors cannot make work.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 18, 2022
“Windfall” is dramatically flat and logically wanting.
| Mar 18, 2022
None of the characters have names, and I wouldnt remember them if they did considering how much of an impression everyone but Plemons makes.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2022