Brian Holcomb

Like his work or not, Ti West's follow up to The House of the Devil is another fine piece of craftsmanship. The young man simply knows how to make a movie, and especially one on his own terms.

A vanity project from successful Hollywood screenwriter and first-time director Mitch Glazer, Passion Play should really be much funnier than it is. Oh, it's not a comedy, by the way. Not at all.

The film version by director Niels Arden Oplev is a faithful adaptation of the novel...perhaps too faithful to work completely as cinema, but well-produced nonetheless.