Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David and see if he gives in to temptation — but events spin out of control when Chloe spills the details of her torrid encounters.
Chloe is a polished but somewhat hollow erotic thriller remake of the French film Nathalie... The premise of a suspicious wife hiring an escort to test her husband has inherent tension, and Atom Egoyan handles the Toronto milieu with some style, but the film leans heavily on genre conventions. The acting is competent — Julianne Moore brings credibility to her anxious role, Amanda Seyfried is effectively unsettling, and Liam Neeson is solid if underused — but none deliver career-defining performances here. Cinematography is sleek and attractive, with Toronto's winter atmosphere used to decent effect. However, the film offers little that distinguishes it from other upscale erotic thrillers; as a remake, its novelty is limited and the plot mechanics feel recycled. The ending escalates into melodrama that feels unearned and somewhat absurd, undercutting the more restrained psychological tension built earlier.