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 Barnes & Noble In yet another bid to shed her girl-next-door image, Sandra Bullock tackles a difficult role in this riveting psychological thriller directed by Barbet Schroeder (Single White Female), and under his guidance she delivers one of the finest performances of her career. Bullock portrays a brilliant, hard-charging homicide detective whose single-mindedness masks a deep-seated anxiety -- emotional baggage she carries as a result of trauma suffered long ago. Her new partner (Ben Chaplin) doesn’t understand Bullock any better than her other co-workers can, but he learns to appreciate her abilities when they are assigned to investigate a baffling murder. Two relative newcomers, Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt, are positively bone-chilling as the intelligent teenage misfits who stage a perfect crime and then play cat-and-mouse with the detectives. Clearly inspired by the Leopold and Loeb child murder of the 1920s (dramatized in the 1959 film Compulsion), Murder by Numbers updates the theme in an entirely credible manner; given the barbaric crimes committed these days by some teenagers, the murder depicted here by Schroeder isn’t nearly as incomprehensible as the Leopold-Loeb killing seemed to Roaring 20s America. Shrewdly concocted and convincingly told, this lurid melodrama sports a heart-stopping climax of Hitchcockian suspense -- an altogether fitting wind-up for one of the year’s most engrossing films. The DVD adds a feature-length commentary by Schroeder and editor Lee Percy. Ed Hulse Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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