We Need to Talk About Kevin

Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, and Ezra Miller star in this “domestic horror story” about a family whose young son commits a horrendous act and the mother who replays every maternal moment that could have influenced it. Based on the prize-winning novel by Lionel Shriver, Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation turns the focus onto the grieving mother, ostracized and nearly living like a mournful ghost as she bears the brunt of a community’s wrath. Swinton is, as always, impeccable in this “disturbing tale told with uncompromising emotionality and great skill by Ramsay” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times).