grown up
around Stanley Kubrick's masterly 1980 chiller, "The Shining." Directed by
Rodney Ascher, "Room 237" takes as its point of departure those cinephiles who,
as they explain ... others more
cracked than Jack Nicholson's crazed character - in "The Shining." Wittily, Mr.
Ascher employs a lavish number of seamlessly edited movie clips to illustrate
these theories, a strategy ... just
with the object of their cine-obsessions but also inside them. Mr. Ascher's end
credits state that his sampling of all these films falls under fair use. Fingers