I tend to enjoy talky films, but said films run into trouble when what's being said isn't all that interesting. Tracing a nine year relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is a mixture of letter-writing and long-winded conversations between the two men and the woman wedged between them. There are interesting facets to the story and it's expertly told, but for the most part I found it all to be rather inconsequential.

Beginning in 1904 in Switzerland, a carriage is bringing a young Russian girl by the name of Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) to a Swiss mental hospital near Zurich where she will soon become the patient of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). As Sabina, Knightley struggles for each word early on, freakishly jutting her chin in such a way you begin to think her lower jaw may soon become detached and contorting her hands...