The easy comparison for Tate Taylor’s mystery thriller
The Girl on the Train is Gone Girl. They’re
both based on massively popular, best-selling novels, books that became bona fide
cultural sensations, and the marketing team has done everything in its power to
evoke David Fincher’s artfully trashy noir. More accurate comparisons, however,
are the generic thrillers that populate the Lifetime Movie Network. (Also, I can’t
be the only one annoyed that every mystery with an adult female protagonist has to be
The Girl did This, The Girl with That, This
Girl, can I?)
