Don't Breathe

Wait until daylight plays with horror tropes, bringing the blindness of the lambs to the person under the stairs. Flash-forward lets audience see too much. Underwhelming protagonists are easily overpowered by well-conceived bad guy’s oddly empathetic agenda, not to mention the strength that Lang brings to his alarmingly well-envisioned basterd.

Prisoners

Gyllenhaal rechecks his zodiac and flinches at the result while Jackman and his co-stars deliver soulful, vulnerable performances as they navigate this mystic labyrinthine river of mystery (with s whistle of predictability).  Painted shades of gray by the moral ambiguity of characters and brilliant (or anti-brilliant) eye of DP Deakins.