Review: Shelter (15)**

Just as surely as the sun will rise in the east, Oscar-nominated actress Julianne Moore will continue to offset her brilliant work in independent films with thankless roles in mainstream Hollywood fare.

By The Newsroom

Published 9th Apr 2010, 12:43 BST

Updated 14th Apr 2010, 13:27 BST

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The curse strikes again with Shelter, a ho-hum psychological thriller from London-born screenwriter Michael Cooney. Dr Cara Jessup (Moore) is an expert in the field of multiple personality disorders and has been called as a witness at the trials of murderers and psychopaths who tried to mimic the symptoms to avoid a death sentence.

Her psychiatrist father (Jeffrey DeMunn) asks her to examine a new patient, Adam (Rhys Meyers), who seems to have the disorder.

At first, Cara sees nothing remarkable in Adam's charts and testimony, then her father teases out a second personality, and a third, including Cara's beloved husband, who died during a mugging. And so begins a sleep-inducing two hours with Moore's performance much better than the film deserves.

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