River Wild (2023)

There's not much connecting this thriller to the 1990's The River Wild starring Meryl Streep except the title and the fact that whitewater rafting and a psychopath feature, but beyond these things, this is a grim crime story, charmless and full of low budget nasty realism, not high adventure, that makes it feel more like a re-enactment on that 48 Hour tv true crime doco, the sort you might snap off when it gets too bleak.

★★☆☆☆

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The Roommate (2011)

Like the movie it rips off (Single White Female), this is a thriller in which crimes against the heroine by a man (Steven Weber in SWF, Billy Zane, here) are rendered trivial by the subsequent actions of a really batshit crazy female roommate (Jennifer Jason Lewis in SWF, Leighton Meester, here) and the similarities continue - in fact, the most interesting thing about this teen version is wondering how much like a psycho roommate of the superior 1992 original it is going to be before it descends into its final uncontrolled death throes.

★☆☆☆☆

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