The Dry

 This suffers a bit from genre-requirements intruding on a story that could be intriguing in completely other ways - the story of a policeman who finds himself returning to his old country town home when an old friend apparently commits suicide, kilning his wife and children - suffers because ultimately it doesn't believe in playing through the self-evident solution and prefers to play a who-dunnit, rather than settling with the implications that an apparent "good guy" was capable of this kind of cruelty. It does have a lot of the familiar tricks of town-with-many-secrets, together with a packed cast of interested supporting cast characters to be possible suspects, witnesses and red-herrings. The flash-back-and-back-to-present structure also means we get two stories at slightly longer paces than they should be, rather than one well-paced one. Robert Connolly was an interesting director earlier in his career, but alas he's just delivering jorneyman solid work here, alongside Bana, equally solid but with nothing much deeper.