Some Other Woman

Directed by Joel David Moore, Some Other Woman follows Amanda Crew’s Eve Carver as begins experiencing oddball happenings that force her to question her very identity. There’s little doubt, ultimately, that Some Other Woman fares best within its low-key and fairly promising opening half hour, as Moore, armed with a script by Yuri Baranovsky, Angela Gulner, and Josh Long, does an effective job of establishing the central character and her decidedly unsatisfying day-to-day life. (And it doesn’t hurt, certainly, that Moore has elicited strong performances by Crew and, cast as Eve’s oblivious husband, Tom Felton.) It’s only as Moore begins emphasizing elements of a head-scratching, increasingly nonsensical nature that Some Other Woman begins its sharp turn towards irrelevance, and it does, as a result, become more and more difficult to work up any real interest in (or sympathy for) the protagonist’s mind-bending dilemma – with the arms-length atmosphere perpetuated (and heightened) by a growing absence of coherent, reality-based attributes (ie what does any of this mean?) By the time the deeply unsatisfying final stretch rolls around, Some Other Woman has confirmed its place as an overly esoteric experiment that’s hardly as impactful as Moore has undoubtedly intended.

* out of ****