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THE CELL
March 4, 2016  | By David Bianculli

Cinemax, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

Tarsem Singh is a former music video director (R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion”) who has a lush and original visual filmmaking sense – one that TV finally may tap into successfully later this year, as he’s the staff director on the upcoming Wizard of Oz semi-sequel Emerald City. But until now, his best work has been as director of this 2000 crime drama, which takes the delve-into-the-mind-of-a-psychopathic-killer theme from Silence of the Lambs and approaches it literally, with a mind-meld into the killer’s subconscious. The person sent into his mind to tap into his deepest secrets and hidden information is a therapist played by Jennifer Lopez, with help from FBI agent Vince Vaughan. The bad guy is played, viciously, by Vincent D’Onofrio, and all three of them are served well by Singh’s dreamlike visions. At more than one point, Lopez becomes one herself.

 
 
 
 
 
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