Directorial debut of the screenwriter of Babel, 21Grams, Amores Perros, Guillermo Arriaga, firm in the belief that no story is so hokey it can't be saved by being fractured, shattered, reassembled out of order. (The connection between two widely separated time zones would have been easier to make if not for the seemingly migrating moles on the throats of two actresses sharing the same role.) Well-rooted camerawork by Robert Elswit and some striking locales in New Mexico and Oregon. Charlize Theron, as a self-abuser and self-abaser, makes the most, probably too much, of her many minutes on screen. With Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, Joaquim de Almeida, José María Yazpik, Robin Tunney, and John Corbett. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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