‘Reptile’ Review: Not Even Benicio del Toro Can Save Showy, Tiresome Thriller

Toronto Film Festival: Grant Singer’s feature directorial debut spends two hours teasing the audience, but its overheated density just gets annoying

Reptile
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You may never see a thriller more determined to tell you what a thriller it is than “Reptile.” The film, the feature directorial debut of music video and commercial director Grant Singer, is so stylish that it’s obnoxious and so determined to crank up the portentousness at every opportunity that it almost plays like a parody of a dense, thorny crime thriller.

But if you take it with a sense of humor and appreciate the performances by Benicio del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Silverstone, Eric Bogosian, Frances Fisher and other actors trying to put a spin on all those thriller beats, the Netflix production can be a hoot at times.

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