Keane (2004)

As the title character, Damian Lewis gives a wholehearted performance but his situation never quite rings true: after the abduction of his daughter from the New York Port Authority bus terminal, Keane teeters on the edge of insanity (but then doesn't), struggles to scrounge cash to continue his hotel limbo (but then doesn't) and for the benefit of the viewer (but not for the believability of the story), he also helpfully provides an out-loud commentary of his mad thoughts.

★★☆☆☆

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Unsane (2018)

** SPOILER WARNING **

The poster asks, "Is she or isn't she?" but in fact the answer to that question is, um, dispensed early on in Steven Soderbergh's surprisingly straightforward horror thriller about involuntarily "voluntarily admitted" psychiatric patient Sawyer Valentini, whose own The Cure For Wellness situation is compounded by a plot device so ridiculous it could only exist, surely, in the head of a deluded psychiatric patient: an obsessed stalker who has somehow (don't ask questions - did you know the movie was filmed entirely on an iPhone?) inveigled his way quick-sticks into a job at the facility.

★★☆☆☆

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