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19
Viewer score based on 191 votes.

Critic Score

68
Critics' score based on 21 reviews.
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Presented with an economy and emotional cool that add to, rather than subtract from, its dramatic impact, The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

Given several years' distance from the media blitz, Tchin brings clarity, maturity, and perspective to the case while still subtly addressing all the thorny social issues the affair touched off.Full Review

Scott Tobias
The Onion A.V. Club

Best known for 1994's "The Wild Reeds," Techine has been a director for more than 30 years, and the fluidity of his polished, intelligent, at times enigmatic works make him someone whose films are always worth watching.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

What the film is really about is social embarrassment, and Bleistein's clear-headed, calm understanding that his old friend has a stupid daughter who has caused fraudulent trouble for a great many people.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

What it's really about - and this sounds so boring, and so nothing, when in fact it's really rather wonderful - is people. Just regular people, a mother and daughter, whose lives are observed with economy and precision, and with an eye for the telling detail and the tense, revealing moment.Full Review

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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