"The Details" is not just entertaining, but potentially useful.

As the title suggests, it's all in the details, which writer-director Estes provides in large if not always convincing doses.

It's hard to make a fine actress like Laura Linney look off-key and shrill, but "The Details" manages to do just that. It's hardly an accomplishment.

Everything here is intentionally grotesque to service the filmmaker's cheap shots. Women and black people are just plain crazy.