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Hallow Road starring Rosamund Pike is a taut car-crash thriller... until it hits the plotholes, writes BRIAN VINER

BRIAN VINER: It's an agonising moral dilemma wrapped up as a taut thriller, brilliantly performed by Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys and the unseen Megan McDonnell.

In disconcerting silence the camera roams through a house, picking out clues of a crime or perhaps a furious argument: an unfinished dinner, a smashed wine glass half-swept up. In many respects, Hallow Road is strongly reminiscent of Steven Knight’s terrific 2013 thriller Locke, which similarly used a single car journey and a series of phone conversations to ramp up the tension. Locke was only 85 minutes long and Hallow Road is even shorter, so it could easily keep on a linear narrative path, but instead, about halfway through, it takes a regrettable swerve into vaguely supernatural territory.

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