Nick Pinkerton

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE Syfy Network house director Steven R. Monroe remakes Meir Zarchi’s 1978 quintessential revenge-rape/rape-revenge film. Jennifer (Sarah Butler) rents a cabin in black-mud backwoods Louisiana to work in peace on her second novel. An encounter with a local gas-station attendant (Jeff Branson) that crackles with class......

IT’S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE A murderess is loose in West London’s Indian community, using food as her deadly weapon — knifepoint feedings of lava-hot vindaloo or suffocation by naan dough. On this macabre setup, writer-director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) lays out a banquet of fretful Indian-mama humor. Homicidally......

THE FREEBIE Annie and Darren are a married thirtysomething L.A. couple coddled in childless comfort (Katie Aselton, in her directorial debut, stars opposite Dax Shepard). In a series of pillow-talk dialogues, they discuss their snuggle-cozy and sexless life together — consisting of chaste goofing, brunching, and opting out of sex......

DEVIL M. Night Shyamalan cooked up this twisty straw story of sin, punishment and redemption, in which five strangers — a biddy, a princess, a security guard, an ex-Marine and a jerk-off mattress salesman — find themselves stuck together in an inaccessible highrise elevator. When, under cover of periodic blackouts,......

GO  GENIUS WITHIN: THE INNER LIFE OF GLENN GOULD Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont's portrait of idiosyncratic Canadian piano prodigy Glenn Gould bedecks their subject's early grave with homage. Gould's ex-lovers, few true friends and biographer come forth to tell what they saw of the musician's phobic, closely guarded mind......

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Out of jail and reborn as a lecture-circuit prophet just as 2008's "economic Pearl Harbor" hits, Michael Douglas' chastened Gordon Gekko takes time to coach young trader and aspiring son-in-law Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), who's looking to visit revenge on Bretton James (Josh Brolin), the......

Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, director-star Ben Affleck models a full line of warm-up suits to play Doug MacRay, a second-generation blue-collar stickup man, brains of his four-man bank crew. The setting is Charlestown, the square-mile majority-Irish Boston neighborhood that shares......

CATFISH Catfish comes in at 89 minutes — just long enough to sustain the suspense in a setup that starts to play out like pure vérité horror (or "reality thriller," as it's being billed), just short enough to retreat from the squirmy destination it arrives at without going further than......