The Woman in Cabin 10 is the most watched on Netflix and it is a paranoid thriller

Mystery, a death, a twist and a protagonist who everyone believes is hallucinating. But no, what the character saw Keira Knightley in The woman in cabin 10the number 1 movie right now Netflixit is as true as that the brief, if good, is twice as good.

In any case, the English actress Pirates of the Caribbean is somewhat far from the interpretations he had in The Enigma Code u Pride and prejudicethe latter two for which she was nominated for an Oscar, in this paranoid thriller that, in the manner of Death on the Nileby Agatha Christie, and even with touches stolen from Hitchcock, makes mystery the clay to create a story – short, as we said – and at times captivating.

Knightley, whom we haven’t seen on a movie screen for a few years, is once again an investigative journalist as in The Boston Strangler (2023, available in the Disney+ catalog), his previous film. And she is also on the trail of an alleged murderer(s), all on the luxurious yacht to which she was invited to travel.

Everyone in the editorial office where she works does nothing but congratulate Laura Blacklock. And after hard work, he agrees to take a break and join the maiden voyage of a luxury cruise. The owner is a shipping heiress, who has leukemia (Lisa Loven Kongsli), and together with her husband Richard (Guy Pearce) they have invited a dozen rich people who donated considerable amounts of money to their new charitable foundation, which seeks to help those who cannot afford the costs of cancer treatments.

But Laurita is not The woman in cabin 10, but that of 8. It is not a minor fact.

And it’s not, because right in the next cabin, number 10, Laura saw a young, blonde woman when she entered there, almost accidentally. And it doesn’t happen that, at night, she is woken up by screams coming from next door, she sees a body fall into the water and the prints of a bloody hand on the balcony that separates one cabin from the other.

The journalist’s surprise is great when Richard and the crew tell her that there was never anyone in cabin number 10. Whoever was going to take it excused himself before letting go. So they tell him that “it must have seemed like it”, “he must have dreamed” or who knows what.

But since those of us who sat down to watch the Netflix movie were not asleep, we saw the same thing as Laura. That woman was in that cabin, and what we don’t know is whether the body that was thrown into the sea is that of that same person or another.

The woman in cabin 10 steals a lot from Agatha Christie, less from Hitchcock and even has points in common with the saga of Between knives and secrets (which Netflix bought…), with so many rich people suspected of an alleged murder.

Of course the plot adds a romantic interest – an ex of Laura’s who is a photographer (David Ajala), and who was also invited to the cruise through icy waters towards Norway – but it is like a color fact, something necessary for what will happen in the second half of the film.

Already approaching its conclusion, The Woman in Cabin 10, directed by Simon Stone (the very good The excavationwith Ralph Fiennes) talks about female solidarity, class inequality and the need for inspiring stories in “inhuman times”, as Laura says at the beginning.

But it is not an ambitious film. It only offers entertainment, with a cast that perhaps has a little left in the film – let’s add Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), David Morrissey (The Walking Dead)- Paul Kaye (as the rocker mix of Mick Jagger and Robbie Williams), Kaya Scodelario and Gugu Mbatha-Rawya (Laurita’s editor) -, but it’s good to spend some time.

“The woman in cabin 10”

Suspense. United States / United Kingdom. 2025. Títutulu Original: “The Woman in Cabin 10”. 92’, SAM 13. Of: Simon Stone. Con: Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, David Ajala, Hannah Waddingham, David Morrissey. Available in: Netflix.