A heist gone wrong triggers a dark night of the soul

It's a wonder we didn't all go mad. How did we even survive the early days of the pandemic, a seemingly interminable epoch during which many of us spent long hours holed up in our sad little towers, captives in sweatpants gazing longingly at the outside world?

- By Stephanie Zacharek

Vasilis Katsoupis' intriguingly odd little psychological thriller Inside isn't a pandemic parable per se, but it's likely to resurrect some jittery memories of those days even so. A high-end art thief played by Willem Dafoe botches a burglary and finds himself trapped alone in an art-filled luxury penthouse, for hours that stretch into days. Will he get out, and if so, how? Meanwhile, what is all that time spent alone not to mention all that art, which includes an elegantly haunting Egon Schiele self-portrait-doing to his brain?