The Killer Inside Me, Michael Winterbottom, 2010

Winterbottom's reading of Jim Thompson's exceedingly dark Texas noir is uneven but ultimately lasting. Casey Affleck is by turns spot on and overwrought as the even-keeled killer Lou Ford. Likewise, Winterbottom's direction (not unlike DePalma's in the similarly revivalist Black Dahlia), drifts between classically evocative and awkwardly stylized.