Funny Games

(Warner IndependentPictures)

Starring: Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt

Acclaimed foreign director Michael Haneke (Cache) has reworked his cult-favorite 1997 Austrian film. In this painstaking American retelling, a young mother (Watts) and her family are kidnapped and tortured at their weekend retreat by two young men. This remake is tense and suspenseful, but it doesn’t quite live up to the original.