The
always - working Chastain, who is having another busy movie season («The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,» «Interstellar,» «A Most Violent Year»), is rigid and spooky - eyed as a noblewoman with a less - than -
noble spirit.
Along with a quite moving faith in the commonweal and in the indomitability of the
noble human
spirit — a throughline in the cinema of Collet - Serra, who
always puts his protagonists through the wringer — The Commuter is blessed with some of the deftest setpieces in recent pop cinema memory, including one brisk, brutal close - quarters dust - up that recalls Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin.