Film Review - Eileen

Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie do their best with a noirish tale that promises much and delivers little

Credit: Universal

I really wanted to like Luke Goebel and Ottessa Moshfegh’s co-adaption of the latter’s novel (which I haven’t read). From the trailer, it appears to be solid psycho-noir schlock with a Hitchcockian edge, and for a while, the film looks as though it might follow through. But Eileen fizzles out just when it gets interesting, leaving one w…