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A possessed nun, an alcoholic ex-cop and a mess of shattered glass drive “Mirrors,” a minor chiller and major downer from the talented Alexandre Aja. Inspired by (though unfaithful to) the 2003 Korean movie “Into the Mirror,” the new film features Kiefer Sutherland as Ben, a disgraced New York City police officer battling the consolation of Jack Daniels and straining the last nerve of his estranged wife (Paula Patton). Ben’s new job as night watchman at a burned-out department store would probably not have been approved by an A.A. sponsor, given its abundance of spooky mirrors that sprout phantom hand prints and manipulate his reflection — rather horribly, as it turns out. A trail of evil and psychiatric disturbance follows Ben home (just for a change, I’d like to see a protagonist motivated by something more epic than the... [read full story]
