Weekend Movie Forecast: The International or Gomorrah

The Caller, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, is a moody, elliptical thriller co-starring Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) as a whistle-blowing executive at an international energy firm. After exposing his company's bloody hands in Latin America, Langella becomes a marked man, and anonymously hires Elliott Gould, a private detective, to stay on his tail until the end. (Gould talked with us about his role in one of our all time favorite Gothamist interviews.)

The film itself, however, is not one of our favorites. Aaron Hillis at the Village Voice agrees: "There's jumping the shark, and then there's ruining the entire movie, so when Langella is shown in the very first call to be the eponymous client on the other end of the line, we're left to wonder why we're watching Gould scramble for clues to a mystery we've been given the solution to. Unless you can't figure out who the two boys are in the force-fed World War II childhood trauma flashbacks, in which case [spoiler alert!] you're an idiot."