Word: whodunitism
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...good movie, even a good mystery, may have more to do with mood and character than with revealing whodunit or what happens next. Hidden is directed with the unblinking, unmoving eye of a surveillance video, and acted with power and subtlety. Violence has the same cinematic confidence in telling stories through images and gestures, the same powerful ambiguity in Mortensen's performance. Both films are among the most powerful and supple works of their esteemed directors. Yet the Jury gave only a thanks-for-coming Best Director prize to Haneke, and snubbed Cronenberg completely. The King isn't in their...
...blue-blooded MacInesses suspect that the relationship between Eric and Vermeer was more than just teacher-student. And they also believe that Vermeer might have been the murderer of his suspected ex-lover. The result is a crimson-tinted twist on the old whodunit template...
...effect of the first--Survivor--and of the dozens of reality shows that followed it was quick and obvious. But the second--CSI: Crime Scene Investigation--got little initial attention, even from CBS. CSI proved a dream marriage of the edgy and the safe: an old-fashioned whodunit, set in sexy Las Vegas, that wouldn't alienate CBS's Murder, She Wrote demographic but geeky enough--scientists wielding swabs, not guns--to attract the passionate audience of a cult show...
...Murder Marinara” is a three-hour whodunit extravaganza performed in the basement of Ristorante Marino in Davis Square. On Saturday night at 7 p.m., we warily make our way past sedate diners and down the stairs to the restaurant’s theater. Instantly we are accosted by a corpulent madam in a red silk dress. “Mama Marinara,” as she calls herself, presses us into her vast bosom before entreating us—or rather screaming at us like an over-the-top Italian matriarch—to follow...
...that actors don’t have to be showy to be effective. Too bad that nobody told Sean Penn, who brings his full actor-y powers to bear in Mystic River, Eastwood’s latest effort. Too often, the film feels less like the well-crafted whodunit at its center and more like a freshman acting class: Penn thrashes and grimaces, Tim Robbins acts numb, and Marcia Gay Harden wobbles her voice so much that you wonder if she’s standing on the San Andreas Fault. On the other hand, Kevin Bacon does some...