The actors are uniformly skillful (and Reilly’s voice is one of the current cinema’s charms), but Ramsay gives them little but prefabricated attitudes to work with. (The real story is the unexplained absence of family therapy.) Ramsay teases out the tale of the bad seed-one of nature’s terrors, a family’s worst nightmare-with woozy, vaguely subjective imagery, while exploiting (but not exploring) the very fascination that such monsters exert. Earlier books include Double Fault, A Perfectly Good Family, and Checker. Reilly), have a boy (played, as a teen, by Ezra Miller) who behaves maliciously toward her and manipulatively toward his father. Lionel Shriver's novels include the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Tilda Swinton stars as Eva Khatchadourian, a former travel writer now relegated to clerical work, whose recollections, triggered by easy visual rhymes, dose out snippets of a past that she remembers fully and painfully. Lynne Ramsay’s coolly calculated drama, based on the novel by Lionel Shriver-about a suburban woman who recalls, in flashbacks, the events leading up to her teen-age son’s killing spree, while enduring her new life as the local pariah-masquerades as a psychological puzzle but is essentially a horror film full of decorous sensationalism.
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