Now Playing: ‘Enemy’

Gyllenhaal vs. Gyllenhaal in ‘Enemy’

Last year in Prisoners, director Denis Villeneueve pulled a performance out of the normally downbeat Jake Gyllenhaal whose vibrant intensity stunned even in a film filled with it. WithVilleneueve’s followup, a thinly creepy take on a Jose Saramago novel, Gyllenhaal somehow delivers less in a story that asks him to play two visually identical but spiritually opposite roles.

Enemyis playing now in limited release; my review is atFilm Racket:

Jake Gyllenhaal pla...