Every Breath You Take (2021)

Every Breath You Take: Directed by Vaughn Stein. With Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Claflin, Veronica Ferres. A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter.

“Grace (Michelle Monaghan) loses her son in a car accident. Her stepdaughter Lucy (India Eisley) gets kicked out of school for drug use. Her psychiatrist husband Philip (Casey Affleck) is treating troubled patient Daphne (Emily Alyn Lind) in an unconventional way. When she commits suicide, her brother James (Sam Claflin) is devastated.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe cast is A minus but the writing is C plus at best. There is too much filler which slows the thriller down. More than anything, this movie keeps going back to two frustrating tropes. The first one is understandable but is annoying nevertheless. Basically, one character dares another by offering to do the exact right thing. The other character would get embarrassed and not do that exact right thing. Itu0026#39;s meant to build tension but itu0026#39;s too obvious and it keeps repeating. The other move is the characters not communicating with each other. Most of the problems can be solved if they would just tell each other whatu0026#39;s going on. They keep not telling the whole story and problems ensue. Itu0026#39;s a bad writing device and the movie keeps doing it. All of it makes this a rather frustrating thriller.”