Weekend Movie Forecast: Star Trek Or...Oh, Just See Star Trek

Julia, a new film from Erick Zonca (The Dreamlife of Angels) stars Tilda Swinton as a grotesquely self-destructive boozer who gets drawn into an acquaintance's ill-conceived kidnapping/ransom scheme. Everything goes horribly wrong, and The Times's Manohla Dargis says that some scenes are "so tonally relentless, so claustrophobic and harrowing that I found myself pushed right out of the movie...But Ms. Swinton demands to be seen even when her character is on a self-annihilating bender so real that you can almost smell the stink rising off her. So I sat in my seat, cursed the screen and was grateful to watch an actress at the height of her expressive power claw toward greatness. Claw, crawl, stumble, scurry, fly like a bat out of this hell — Ms. Swinton does it all."