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Most agree that this "dismayingly schlocky and literal-minded thriller" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) is leavened only by a fine performance by Annette Bening as a woman plagued by the dreams of a serial killer.
An actress who packs more psychological detail into a single gesture than others get into whole scenes, Bening was barreling down the road to greatness before she hit a speed bump called Warren.
Carolyn isn't a complicated dramatic construction, but Bening gives her a primal force.
Denzel Washington and Annette Bening (FBI and CIA operatives, respectively) are said to be good but not great.
Bening plays a children's book author plagued by dreams of little girls being lured away by a big, bad wolf in human form.