Notebook Reviews: ARLINGTON ROAD

Mark Pellington – 1999.

Arlington Road is a first-rate conspiracy thriller from director Mark Pellington. This suburban tale of terror has a great cast – Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, and Hope Davis – all doing great work.

There’s a real sense of the late Alan Pakula’s 1970s work here (Klute, The Parallax View and All the President’s Men) – and it’s all the better for it. It’s stylish, but this never takes away from the well-honed dramatic elements. 

Arlington Road is well-honed film-making for grown-ups.