Transsiberian

When an American couple (Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer) traveling from China to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway meets an outwardly friendly couple (Eduardo Noriega and Kate Mara) traveling the same route, deception soon gives way to murder in The Machinist director Brad Anderson's tense ...more

A thriller—more psychological than overtly violent—set in a powdered, chilly landscape, Transsiberian is just the kind of diametric film fodder that summer blockbuster-weary audience members have been awaiting. Brad Anderson (who directed a frighteningly emaciated Christian Bale in The Machinist) lensed this modest independent feature, which aligns itself with classic genre pictures of yore, though it’s certainly not a rehash of well-worn Hitchcock-ian narrative tropes or an attempt at Murder on ...more