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Manohla Dargis doesn't much like Dark Water, the new Jennifer Connelly horror flick about moving to — quelle horreur! — Roosevelt Island. But she also doesn't quite hate it:

What makes this redo more tolerable than the usual recycled junk isn't the presence of the Academy Award-winning actress, a first-rate weeper who looks good soaking wet. Or that of the respected director Walter Salles, late of "The Motorcycle Diaries," whose deadly serious style here suggests he thought he was remaking "Medea" or, at the very least, a Roman Polanski chiller. It's that this is a horror movie about being shut out of the Manhattan real estate market.

Oh, Manohla, honey, you silly Angeleno: We already live that horror movie every single day.

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