Roger Dodger

Campbell Scott's fiendishly mercurial performance as razor-tongued womanizer Roger is a revelation but it's only one of this nimble film's pleasures. First-time feature writer-director Dylan Kidd's lacerating dialogue is another, as is his astonishingly accomplished sense of mise en scene; time after time, what at first look like caught-on-the-fly shots reveal themselves to be handsomely and significantly composed. And he makes the most of strong supporting performances from Isabella Rossellini, as Roger's boss and soon-to-be ex; newcomer Jesse Eisenberg as his naive nephew; and Jennifer Beals and Elizabeth Berkley as a pair of prowling party girls who are, like ever...