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'Enemy' captivating until its shocking end

Confounding and twisty, “Enemy” makes for one of the most frightening films in years. “Enemy,” an unnerving thriller about doppelgangers, by the director and star of “Prisoners,” entraps audience in a web of tension. Denis Villeneuve shot this low-budget, mysterious and deeply discomforting thriller before his Oscar-nominated “Prisoners” with an all-star cast, and both films star Jake Gyllenhaal. In “Enemy,” Gyllenhaal plays Adam Bell, a college history professor who always looks run-down and disheveled, drowning in his empty life.


SET DEL FILM "LA GRANDE BELLEZZA" DI PAOLO SORRENTINO.
NELLA FOTO TONI SERVILLO.
FOTO DI GIANNI FIORITO

“The Great Beauty” is confounding, beautiful

Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film is head-scratching, Fellini-esque “The Great Beauty” is a vibrant party of a film full of life, lights and pulsating sound, and clearly influenced greatly by the films of Federico Fellini.


Robert Redford stars in "All Is Lost." (Daniel Daza/Lionsgate/MCT)

‘All Is Lost’ powerful, minimalist film

Nearly wordless film starring Robert Redford profound J.C. Chandor, the writer/director of the marvelous and talky “Margin Call,” has directed a nearly wordless drama starring Robert Redford as a nameless man lost at sea.


Actor Matt Damon, left, and actor/director George Clooney peform a scene on the set of the Columbia Pictures' movie, "The Monuments Men". (Columbia Pictures/MCT)

‘Monuments Men’ squanders ace cast

WWII caper slick enough, but ultimately sadly nonessential “The Monuments Men,” starring, co-written and produced by George Clooney, is a minor, passably entertaining WWII drama that does not fully utilize its amazingly talented cast.