Tag: Stephen Rea

It’s a sign of progress that the great Isabelle Huppert can emerge from her acclaimed performance in “Elle” with enough industry clout to land a hambone villain role in a project that probably wouldn’t exist if she hadn’t said yes to it. “Greta,” a thriller directed and co-written by Neil Jordan (“The Crying Game”), is a 2019 update on a popular sub-genre from a specific period in film history, the ’80s and ’90s. It was a time when multiplexes never lacked for preposterous thrillers about law-abiding people menaced by agents of chaos who had sympathetic backstories but were so cruel and frightening that the audience could cheer their deaths without guilt.