Insomnia

A resolutely old-fashioned cop movie and the major studio debut of director Christopher Nolan, whose independents MEMENTO (2001) and FOLLOWING (1998) relied on fiendishly fragmented storytelling to revitalize conventional narratives. Embroiled in an internal affairs investigation involving evidence tampering, LAPD detectives Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are dispatched to Alaska on the pretext that the small-town Nightmute police need help solving the murder of a local teen (Crystal Lowe). The partners know it's simply an excuse to get them out of town, and seen-it-all veteran Dormer is content to lie low until the storm blows over. The you...