This neatly executed mystery is just the sort of thing Hollywood craves from Steven Soderbergh: genre entertainment as cool, clean, and impersonal as a Formica countertop. Rooney Mara plays a young woman suffering from depression after her husband returns home from prison, and the other above-the-title stars are all Soderbergh veterans: Channing Tatum (
Magic Mike) as the husband, who's done time for insider trading; Jude Law (
Contagion) as the wife's psychiatrist, who persuades her to try an experimental drug; and Catherine Zeta-Jones (
Traffic) as her former shrink, who knows more than she's saying. The plot twists are expertly handled, which is a good thing, because the movie doesn't offer much else.
Sat 5/25, 7 and 9 PM, and Sun 5/26, 3:15 PM.
By
J.R. Jones