IN LIMITED RELEASE! I’m not going to lie; there are half a dozen or so genuinely tense scenes that make “The Clearing” seem, if only for a moment, like a real thriller gussied up in psychological and emotional trappings. But then it releases its grip and returns to its by-the-book plotting on the way to a final act that is, discouragingly, every bit as restrained as the body of the film…
THE CLEARING
By | July 2004
