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Cinema

Before I Go to Sleep prefers creepy car parks to feelings

And Nicole Kidman’s face looks like those leftovers you keep in Tupperware in the fridge

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

Before I Go to Sleep

15, Nationwide

Before I Go To Sleep is Rowan Joffe’s adaptation of S.J. Watson’s bestselling thriller of 2011, but whereas the book was smart, gripping, ingeniously plotted and had psychological depth — who are we, when we can’t remember who we are? — this is a disappointment on so many levels. It’s not as if it’s even set in Crouch End, north London, any more.

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