ECHO VALLEY Review: Julianne Moore, Sydney Sweeney in Tense, Suspenseful Thriller

In the real world, fireworks usually signal celebration, but in director Michael Pearce’s (Encounter, Beast) latest film, Echo Valley, a dramatic thriller co-starring Oscar winner Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door, May December, When You Finish Saving the World) and Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate, Anyone But You, Euphoria) as mother and daughter, respectively, fireworks represent something else altogether, collaboration, complicity, and ultimately, conspiracy.   They represent the expression of a mother’s “unconditional love,” a willingness to do everything and anything to save her daughter from a lengthy prison sentence or possibly something altogether worse.    Before we get to that pivotal point in Echo Valley, Pearce, working from a taut, if twist-heavy script written by Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown, The Way Back, Run All Night),...

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