Weekend Movie Forecast: 9 or White On Rice

Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and Antonio Banderas star in The Other Man, a film about, you guessed it: cheating. Neeson uncovers an affair between his wife (Linney) and sweet-talker Ralph, played by an actor known for his womanizing ways, Antonio Banderas. Neeson goes to Milan to track down and befriend the other man. The two, rather than duke it out testosterone-style, strike up an unusual friendship that leads to more revealed secrets. Directed by Richard Eyre (and adapted from a short story by Bernhard Schilink, author of "The Reader"), the movie is an exercise in flashbacks, European travels, and a lot of chess-playing. Marshall Fine of the Huffington Post commented on the film saying, "Chess is a pretty strained metaphor and not just for the game that Peter [Neeson] is playing with Ralph. It's also emblematic of a game that Eyre is playing with the audience. The film bounces back and forth in time, repeating scenes with new context or letting them play out slightly longer. Eyre keeps us guessing about when the husband will reveal himself and what he'll do next." — Michelle Geslani