'Verity' review: Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson are stranded in a corny thriller that never earns its darkness
The film adaptation of 'Verity' arrives with the promise of a sleek, twisted psychological drama, but the result is closer to an unintended parody than a genuinely unsettling thriller. Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson bring star power and discipline, yet the material around them is too blunt, too self-serious and too mechanically erotic to sustain suspense.
