There are grown-up moviegoers who will appreciate ''Chloe'' -- a titillating piece of fromage directed by Atom Egoyan from a script by Erin Cressida Wilson -- for its psychological insights and its ideas about identity and desire in modern life. There are also teenage boys who get a hold of Playboy for the articles. There is nothing necessarily...

ON a frosty March morning here the stars stood still while others orbited around them, as tends to happen on a movie set. An assistant's arms wrapped Julianne Moore in a lime popsicle-colored parka; someone else crouched below Amanda Seyfried, lifting her blouse to hold a heating pad belt to her torso. Inside a cavernous restaurant the director...

In ''Adoration,'' a profound and provocative exploration of cultural inheritance, communications technology and the roots and morality of terrorism, the Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan nimbly wades into an ideological minefield without detonating an explosion. Its story of a high school class assignment that becomes a minor cause célèbre is a...