Shutter Island

"Even when it's clear Scorsese has decided to employ fakery and allow it to be obvious, it's done with elegance and beauty."

"Mr. Scorsese in effect forces you to study the threads on the rug he is preparing, with lugubrious deliberateness, to pull out from under you. As the final revelations approach, the stakes diminish precipitously, and the sense that the whole movie has been a strained and pointless contrivance starts to take hold."

"DiCaprio, in his most haunting and emotionally complex performance yet, is the vessel Scorsese uses to lead us through the film’s laby­rinth."

"The film's primary effect is on the senses. Everything is brought together into a disturbing foreshadow of dreadful secrets."

"Meticulous chiller."

"He movie certainly keeps you in its grip from the opening scene: It's a nerve-twisting, tension-jammed exercise in pure paranoia and possibly Scorsese's most commercial film yet."