Side Effects

Side Effects (2013) starring Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones. Psychological thriller in which Emily (Mara) stabs her husband (Tatum) to death while taking an anti-depressant that has been prescribed to her by her psychiatrist (Law). The angle is that she was sleepwalking when she killed her husband, and she gets off on an insanity defense. This is a muddled movie in which some things happen for unexplained reasons, and the tangled plot becomes uninteresting about half-way through. It seems like it's going to be a good movie, but it just doesn't follow through. (Subtitles for the hearing-impaired are available on the disc, but not closed captions.) Grade: B-