The Shape of Things | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Neil LaBute is among the more interesting cinematic talents to emerge these past half-dozen years.

LaBute gives us a sequence of scathing emotional violence that outdoes anything I've seen this year.

LaBute's observations about our self-destructive obsession with appearances may not be original, but his ability to create articulate, provocative characters is.

Go see The Shape of Things, a peculiarly acted, nasty caper, and decide for yourself whether we are being set up by LaBute with a manipulative device or if he is speaking to our frailties and telling truths.

The actors all benefit from intimate knowledge of difficult parts, and barbs at modern art and sexual mores do cut through.