Kathryn Bigelow got some deserved attention for her revisionist vampire film, Near Dark. Having got it, she seems in a mood for some showing-off, with a full arsenal of camera lenses and sheets of blue light and silhouettes and moodscapes and fetishistic closeups and color "studies" and documentary inserts and slow-motion and rack focus -- and nothing to make it cohere. All this is almost, but not quite, enough to distract you from the cat-and-mouse game between a rookie policewoman and a psycho killer, which climbs to what it believes to be a peak of suspense but is in reality a peak of hilarity. With Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, and Clancy Brown. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd