BLACK BOOK Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (
Showgirls and
Starship Troopers) returns to his native land with his Hollywood-learned excess intact, transferring it to an overripe but nonetheless engrossing thriller set during WWII. After her family are killed, a Jewish woman (the alluring Carice Van Houten) joins the Dutch resistance, on whose behalf she begins an affair—though it turns into a genuine romance—with a Nazi officer (Sebastian Koch). Thrills, chills and gun battles follow. (R)
EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN Generation X author Douglas Coupland wrote the screenplay for this slight Canadian comedy about an aging slacker trying to figure out if money really matters. Cute, but no more. (R)
LONELY HEARTS In an uneven crime drama,
Salma Hayek and Jared Leto generate heat as a couple of con artists who fleece and murder lonely women. Their scenes alternate with a dour John Travolta and James Gandolfini playing cops trying to catch the pair. (R)
