The Girl in the River

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The Girl in the River

Sep 2026

1h 32m

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Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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After twin teenage sisters are abducted -- one's body recovered from the Mississippi River, the other nowhere to be found -- veteran criminologist Alan Kramer (Devon Sawa) is drawn into a town suffocating under suspicion and fear. Working under relentless Police Captain Erica Graysmith (Tiffany Haddish), and forced to partner with Amelia Pembrock (Maggie Grace), a brilliant but untested profiler, Kramer quickly discovers this is no ordinary abduction. What begins as a local manhunt erupts into a media firestorm as chilling clues reveal a meticulous killer who plans every move with surgical precision and may be hiding in plain sight. Kramer and Pembrock must crawl inside the mind of a predator in a relentless race against time before another child is lost forever.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

2d

1.5/4

[It’s] a thriller without thrills, a movie without a trace of an identity of its own.

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

5d

The Girl in the River plays entirely by the book, by which I mean that there’s not a plot development you don’t expect.

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

2d

The far-fetched twists don’t generate the suspense to raise the emotional stakes as intended.

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

3d

2/5

Assembled from pretty much every procedural cliche imaginable, this crime thriller features camerawork, dialog and music that almost make this a spoof.

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Joseph Robinson

Fish Jelly Films (YouTube)

3d

1.5/5

A bad script and stiff performances make The Girl in the River feel like a poor adaptation of the CliffsNotes version of a Dateline episode.

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Andrew Auger

Pop Culture Leftovers

3d

There really isn’t much interest in doing anything different from the formula, which means that The Girl in the River works as a background watch but little more than that.

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Buxxie E

@RT41063744 59m

The entire story rests on the question who handles raw chicken and it wasn't everyone else who had a chicken dinner that night but only the butcher ..... That's some lazy writing...

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Abs B

@Abs_B 17h

Such a shame as we knew instantly who the villain was. Dont cast a famous actor in an unusual role. Could've been a lot better. Some unusual acting. Tiffany Haddish in a serious role did not work either.

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Arriel E

@Arieli5 1d

Honestly, this movie is almost unwatchable! From the very beginning, you can tell that the acting was very hammy and over the top. The only exciting part of the movie happens in the last 10 minutes and even that is overly ridiculous and predictable. Just all around a bad movie and not worth a watch.

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Synopsis

After twin teenage sisters are abducted -- one's body recovered from the Mississippi River, the other nowhere to be found -- veteran criminologist Alan Kramer (Devon Sawa) is drawn into a town suffocating under suspicion and fear. Working under relentless Police Captain Erica Graysmith (Tiffany Haddish), and forced to partner with Amelia Pembrock (Maggie Grace), a brilliant but untested profiler, Kramer quickly discovers this is no ordinary abduction. What begins as a local manhunt erupts into a media firestorm as chilling clues reveal a meticulous killer who plans every move with surgical precision and may be hiding in plain sight. Kramer and Pembrock must crawl inside the mind of a predator in a relentless race against time before another child is lost forever.

Director: Brando Benetton
Producer: Rick Moore, Joe Lemmon, Andrew Stevens
Screenwriter: Brando Benetton
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co: Samuel Goldwyn Films, Highland Film Group, Andrew Stevens Entertainment, Eyevox Entertainment, Dynamic Color, Black Diamond Films
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 4, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 4, 2026
Runtime: 1h 32m

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