For fans of What Lies Beneath, Fracture, Gone Girl

I love "Fracture"; it is a perfect example of the "sleeper" - the very good movie that slips under most people's radar. Gosling is far from my favorite young actor but he works very well playing off an excellent Anthony Hopkins.

"Gone Girl" was not too bad. I enjoyed it and liked all the twists and turns of the plot (all of which came, I believe, from the best-selling novel the movie was adapted from).

"What Lies Beneath" is almost laughingly bad. It rivals a "Chucky" movie for the number of times that the killer seems to be dead but suddenly jumps up again.

"A Perfect Murder" wasn't offensive in and of itself, just negligible. It is, of course, a remake of Hitchcock's "Dial 'M' For Murder" which is pretty much perfect in the first place. Hitch didn't have any good ideas for a new film but was being pressured by his studio to come up with something in accordance with his contract. He had seen "Dial 'M'" on stage and liked it, so bought the rights and made the film as a "run for cover" - his term for getting something - anything - up on celluloid to get the suits off his back. Which just goes to show that Alfred Hitchcock, even when he's resting, can blow most movie product off the screen - even the remake of his own film.

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