'Windfall' is a satisfying, well-acted thriller that lives up to its clever premise
The Netflix movie, directed by Charlie McDowell, follows three unnamed characters played by Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins. What unfolds is unsettling, suspenseful and very, very tense.
is not shy about its aspirations to be a throwback. The opening titles come up over a static shot of a curtain blowing across one open French door off the courtyard of a luxury home. They come in an art deco font — and when theyreach the word , its in quotation marks andaccompanied by a sudden, tense chord. The quotation marks are right out of or , and that crashing chord over the title recalls the openings of Hitchcock movies including and .
