It's all working inexorably
toward the moment when Snowden finally chooses to reveal to the world the full extent of the NSA's massive overreach, and Stone does his best to turn what is essentially a data dump into
high drama.
The Gift The sins of the
high - school cafeteria come home to roost in «The Gift,» a coolly unsettling thriller that begins as an unironic homage to late -»80s / early -»90s yuppies - in - peril
dramas like «Fatal Attraction» and «The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,» before taking a turn
toward the moral and existential minefield of Michael Haneke's «Cache.»