The Last Seduction

Director John Dahl gives vintage film noir tropes a sassy postfeminist twist in this deliciously amoral erotic thriller. Linda Fiorentino is on knockout, career-best form as Bridget Gregory, a sociopathic femme fatale who flees Manhattan with a mountain of illegal drug money stolen from her crooked doctor husband, played by Bill Pullman. Using sex, blackmail and lethal sarcasm to double-cross every drooling male standing in her way, Bridget is a magnetic antiheroine, a material girl living in a material world. Dahl’s hugely enjoyable neo-noir contains winking homages to Billy Wilder’s hard-boiled classic DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944).