Sharp Corner

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Sharp Corner

2025

1h 50m

Mystery & Thriller

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Sharp Corner follows Josh (Ben Foster), a troubled man increasingly consumed by the fatal car crashes in front of his house. As Josh's obsession takes hold, he begins to spiral, placing his wife (Cobie Smulders) and son (William Kosovic) in jeopardy and setting in motion a series of events that threaten to permanently break the family apart.

Critics Consensus

Putting Ben Foster's talent for playing men on the edge to good dramatic use, Sharp Corner is an unsettling psychological thriller that might make audiences crack from nerves even before its anxious antihero.

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Manuel Betancourt

Variety

May 31

This is an increasingly nerve-wracking fable about the lengths men whose lives are placid if just merely pleasant will go to make themselves feel needed and validated.

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Barry Hertz

Globe and Mail

May 30

Canadian director Jason Buxton crafts a sometimes tense and sometimes unsteady character study that isn’t so much laced with dread as it is slathered with it.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

May 9

4/4

Foster, one of the most remarkable actors in modern film, is brilliant in what might be his most unexpected performance in years.

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Amanda the Jedi

Amanda the Jedi

Nov 7

Ben Foster often feels like he's channeling a Tim Robinson energy that pushes his obsession over these accidents to a place way funnier than I anticipated. He can't stop, even when everyone is begging him to. A nice Hidden Gem of 2025.

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John Stark

Mac the Movie Guy

Sep 5

46/100

While the work Ben Foster does is still commendable, ultimately this film about obsession gets muddled when it can’t bother to contextualize a key visual element through audio description.

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John Serba

Decider

Aug 18

I interpret the lack of a dishwasher as the most ominous omen in this story. Details matter!

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Matt R.

@matty3stax Mar 30

Ben Foster is a fantastic actor. He again plays his role in this movie very well. It’s way over done though. Completely unbelievable.. even the nerdiest guy doesn’t act that way. His wife is a therapist that has no idea how to act in a relationship… or either she’s married to a stranger. He’s spiraling into becoming a bad guy and I still disliked her more. Nothing to like about any of the characters. Losing his job happens without enough storyline invested. All the wrecks are unbelievable. At that rate 75 people would die in their front yard in a year.The concept is great the plot is awful. It could have been a really good movie and it just isn’t. How it got 92 percent on here is alarming. .

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Dana K

@goodgrief2 Jan 20

Great premise but predictable with unlikeable characters…like other reviewers I didn’t understand why the guy was so effeminate and wimpy, it was annoying, I don’t even think it was a good character study and I like a good one….the whole marriage came crashing down so quickly and suddenly (unless it was rocky before but I didn’t think so), and I thought the end would have some sort of surprise or twist but nope, just the expected ending 🤷‍♀️

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Emiliano F

@DrAlanGrant Dec 28

There's a great idea here that's not actualized until the last 15 minutes, when this mind-numbing boring movie should have actually started. That's when it actually gets good.

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Scott H

@RT41913252 Dec 20

Besides yet another stellar performance from Ben Foster this film is way too meh. Not enough narrative to fill its length.

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Daniel B

@observor Oct 14

Very boring, tedious, nothing was fleshed out, and the main character was really annoying.

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Courtney K

@c0urtn3y Oct 12

i actually really liked this whole concept, but it was REALLY slow - it felt like it took forever to get to the end. but i did really like how it ended, actually. really hit home on what they were building up Josh to be the entire film.

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Synopsis

Sharp Corner follows Josh (Ben Foster), a troubled man increasingly consumed by the fatal car crashes in front of his house. As Josh's obsession takes hold, he begins to spiral, placing his wife (Cobie Smulders) and son (William Kosovic) in jeopardy and setting in motion a series of events that threaten to permanently break the family apart.

Director: Jason Buxton
Producer: Paul Barkin, Marc Tetreault, Jason Levangie, Jason Buxton, Susan Mullen
Screenwriter: Jason Buxton
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: Vertical Entertainment, Alcina Pictures, Shut Up & Colour Pictures, Workhorse Pictures, Kobalt Films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 9, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 9, 2025
Runtime: 1h 50m

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