Dir. Martin Scorsese 138mins, Grand Cinemas & Empire Theatres, Mar 11

Martin Scorsese’s 'Shutter Island' isn’t subtle. It’s a ’50s-set thriller that wears its craft like a cloak with the collar up. A violent patient is on the loose and our marshal heroes, Teddy (DiCaprio) and Chuck (Ruffalo), offer pursuit, stubbornly racing around the island as the wind whips. If the material, adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from Dennis Lehane’s slippery novel, disappoints, you can still count on Scorsese for punch. So many of his famous sequences are charged with a dream logic – Teddy’s dead wife haunts him in vivid color and scenes of falling ash. Still, coming from Scorsese, Shutter Island is slumming: minor but enjoyably nuts. Joshua Rothkopf