A not-so-novel approach: Possession's two-for-one love story is for another crowd. (The Critics Film).

WHEN A WELL-MADE film whistles past me without, touching, when I've sat down and presented the astonished bull's-eye of my brain to the filmmaker only to hear the arrow go harmlessly by my left ear, I have to assume that it was aimed elsewhere--that I may not, in fact, be the target audience.

Who, to take a case in point, is Neil LaBute's Possession aimed at? Answer: my mother-in-law. She loved it. An avid and discerning cinemagoer, she found it entirely satisfying. It filled her, it covered her like a perfume. For me it didn't do much, but, as I say, that might be the point. ...

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