‘Red Eye’: Director Wes Craven Channels Hitchcock

Actors Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy mostly crush it in this nail-biter.

Lisa (Rachel McAdams) and Jackson (Cillian Murphy), in “Red Eye.” Dream Works Pictures

PG-13 | 1h 25min | Thriller, Suspense, Action | 2005

Just twice in his 39-year, 24 feature film career, did the late Wes Craven stray from his wheelhouse. The first of these, “Music of the Heart” from 1999, was an underwhelming musical drama starring Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, and Gloria Estefan, which thoroughly tanked at the box office.