Review: Run

RUN delivers a tightly packaged thriller led by two outstanding leads, Sarah Paulson and Kiera Allen. Though RUN has familiar themes, this is a well-paced, edge-of-your-seat thrill fest.

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Director Aneesh Chaganty's (2018's Searching) chilling new movie will get underneath your skin and numb your bones. Run is well-paced, tightly edited, and skillfully acted — it's an impressive picture that checks all of the boxes on suspense and psychological horror. As always, actor Sarah Paulson delivers another remarkable performance, full of cunning dialogue and wicked tension. Newcomer Kiera Allen is a triumph as Chole, Diane's (Paulson) daughter. Allen's focused and steadfast performance is one of the best, or at least most noble mentions, of 2020. In the beginning scene, we see Diane, an expecting mother, who's daughter is born prematurely. She is taken from Diane and hooked up to machines for survival. Jump forward to the present Chole is someone who is chronically ill with arrhythmia, hemochromatosis, diabetes, and paralysis. Bound to her wheelchair, Chole strives to be as independent as she possibly can.

She's eager to receive her College letters, to see if she has been accepted. Yet, Chole's attitude begins to change when she discovers unfamiliar green pills, apparently prescribed to her mother. Diane insists this new pill has been prescribed to Chloe, under her name. This encounter leads Chole to question her mother's intentions and if she is really as sick as her mother says she is. The film runs with similar parallels to the real-life story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother's (Dee Dee Blanchard) murder. Chole's new discovery leads her on a mission to find out the truth with devastating results. Run is a controlled chaos film, where Chaganty feeds the audience small bursts of adrenaline throughout the picture. This tightly constructed high wire act is precisely edited and meticulously acted — giving us grandeur horror and suspense. Run is a fun and exciting thrill game, that keeps all of its cards in play, never showing its hand. In the end, Run is a psychological thriller that will get your blood rushing one frame at a time.

Run is rated PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) Disturbing Thematic Content | Some Violence/Terror | Language.

Directed by Aneesh Chaganty

Starring Sarah Paulson and Kiera Allen.

Streaming on Hulu