Spoilers follow for The Woman in Cabin 10 film adaptation, which premiered October 10 on Netflix, and the Ruth Ware novel on which it’s based.

Make some room in the ocean, orcas, because The Woman in Cabin 10 is here to aid your assault on yacht culture. The adaptation of Ruth Ware’s same-named 2016 novel takes quite a few liberties with its source material, changing not just the novel’s ending but characters and motivations along the way. Even the size of the Aurora Borealis yacht that contains this locked-room mystery is different! There are a number of credited writers on this thing, including director Simon Stone, and it feels like everyone tried to get an edit in there.

In movie form, The Woman in Cabin 10 is still mostly entertaining; Ware’s core story remains inspired. In

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