Puzzle

2018

Action / Drama / Mystery / Romance

31
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 83% · 134 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 8522 8.5K

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Plot summary

After years of caring exclusively for the needs of her husband and children, Agnes, a devoted housewife living in a small town near New York, has found something she really enjoys doing: solving puzzles.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
November 13, 2018 at 02:00 PM

Top cast

David Denman as Louie
Liv Hewson as Nicki
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878.5 MB
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English 2.0
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1 hr 43 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by James_Take2 8 / 10

An understated but fine drama

Watching this movie took me back to the last century when films were mostly all about story and character development and not devised to smash our senses with special effects, loud music and predictable over the top plots.

This well crafted piece is a joy to watch and provides the perfect platform for some superb acting all round, especially by Scots actor, Kelly McDonald (Agnes) who plays the lonely, frustrated and subservient housewife. Her performance (including very accurate NE USA accent) is one of great subtlety often conveying thoughts through her forlorn eyes and faint smiles. The story is centred around Agnes' escape from her discontented life in the face of her husband (Louie) - who, though a loyal fairly decent man is beyond being stuck in his ways as he settles for mid-life drudgery with his worst crime being that he takes his hardworking wife for granted.

Despite her fairly insular and mundane existence, Agnes' brain is sharp and she maintains it by doing jigsaw puzzles in her spare time. Her curious mind drives her to explore new horizons via her puzzle pastime, as she ventures into the big smoke with dual purpose, to visit her ailing, elderly Aunt and to shop for new jigsaw puzzles. This pursuit leads her down an existential crossroads.

Look out for some clever touches and devices in the development of the storyline as the characters change at different paces and in different directions.

The cinematography captures New York and its suburbs in crisp autumnal tones. Puzzle is not a glossy film about up state New York life but a down to earth true life drama about very plausible people in real situations. The interior sets create great contrast - the suburban house appearing dark and claustrophobic to convey Agnes' trapped environment whilst the other properties (she visits in NYC) are light and spacious to highlight openness, freedom and hope.

The film's title is "Puzzle" and though the drama is not exactly a puzzle, it is intriguing and does show how life itself can be a puzzle caused by events that are almost meant to be.

If you like meaningful films, this understated drama is definitely worth watching.

Reviewed by Ed-Shullivan 7 / 10

Me thinks my lady has lived a shallow existence

Ah, to wake up one morning after just celebrating one's own birthday and to ask yourself the proverbial question "what have I done with my life?" Well that is exactly what our lead actress Kelly Macdonald does as she plays the wife/mother named Agnes and starts fervently putting the matching pieces together of the new puzzle gifted to her at last nights birthday celebration.

Agnes begins to wonder about her own accomplishments these past 20 plus years of blissful marriage and motherhood to two young men/sons. Agnes finds she is torn between her faithful yet androcentric auto mechanic husband Louie (David Denman), and the new man in her life, (the recently seperated form his own wife) Robert (Irrfan Khan) who she met by accident while purchasing a new puzzle. Robert opens up Agnes's mind to the vast possibilities that still await her in the midst of jointly yet secretively working on new puzzles each week in an effort to compete at world puzzle competitions.

This film is about family dynamics, a mother/woman's awakening, and new beginnings. I do believe that there is a percentage of our population that find their true calling much later in life and although our film heroine Agnes, has led a decent life raising two sons and caring for her husband Louie, Agnes realizes there is more to life than just getting by each day in servitude to her three men.

Both Mrs. Shullivan and I enjoyed this dramatic film, just as we enjoy completing a 1,000 piece puzzle from time to time. I just hope Mrs. Shullivan doesn't feel the urge as Agnes did and start looking on-line for a new puzzle partner.

I give Puzzle a decent 7 out of 10 IMDB rating.

Reviewed by neil-476 7 / 10

A bit slow and drab

Agnes is a mother who has put herself second to her husband and her two late teen sons. Given a jigsaw puzzle as a birthday present, she discovers she has a talent for jigsaws and, on a whim, answers an advert from a man advertising for a partner for competitive puzzling. Her experience opens her eyes, and she begins to start living for herself rather than others.

I went into this film knowing absolutely nothing about it,. The "mystery tour" experience is always interesting if not always satisfying, and that was the case here.

The performances were all good, with Kelly Macdonald and Irrfan Khan as the unlikely puzzle partners who forge an unexpected connection, and David Denman as the husband who is utterly perplexed at what his happening to the wife who has been so predictable for so long, and suddenly isn't.

The story is a little unusual in its detail - not so much in its theme - and nicely played. And the conclusion of the film, if not the story, was pleasing.

But it was a little too drawn out and leisurely in the telling for my taste, with an air of drabness.

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