孝夫（寺尾聪 饰）和美智子（樋口可南子 饰）结婚多年，人妻两人在东京定居。虽然孝夫总是自称为小说家，人妻但早已经过气了的他现在连一部作品都卖不出去，全家上下的重担都落到了身为精英医师的妻子肩上。一场意外的发生让美智子患上了恐慌症，为了缓解妻子的病情，孝夫决定举家搬迁到位于故乡信州的一座小小村落里。在村里，夫妻两人结识了96岁高龄的幸田婆婆。幸田婆婆脑袋里总是有很多天马行空的想法，她将这些故事讲述给患有喉疾的女孩小百合（小西真奈美 饰）听，小百合则讲这些话语整理成文章，刊登在村中的小报《阿弥陀堂讯息》上。
傅霖
回复 :一个人被关在一个铁笼里，破了一个奇案。在一个带电的铁笼中，当地封之为“神探”的黄升被关在铁笼里几天几夜，无水无食……关押人有一个要求，让黄升讲清楚一年前黄升破的轰动一方的舍利被盗案。随着黄升的讲述，一层又一层的真相被揭穿。国家级非物质文化遗产华阴老腔被巧妙地融入剧情，成为推理的密码之一。究竟谁是幕后凶手？血画背后的谜底是什么？黄升能不能逃出这个铁笼？
雷有辉
回复 :Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
魔比
回复 :在6年的牢狱之灾中，鲁迪（本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）结识了好友尼克（詹姆斯·弗莱恩 James Frain 饰），通过尼克的书信，鲁迪得知了一位名叫阿什莉（查理兹·塞隆 Charlize Theron 饰）的女子，在潜移默化之间，鲁迪竟然也对阿什莉产生了一种特殊的感情。一次监狱里的骚乱中，尼克身亡，而出狱后的鲁迪只有一个愿望，那就是找到阿什莉。正如鲁迪所预想的那样，阿什莉是一个绝色美人，为了不让事态过去突兀，鲁迪向阿什莉谎称自己就是尼克。鲁迪和阿什莉的关系进展迅速，可与此同时，鲁迪亦发现自己似乎被卷入了一场阴谋之中。阿什莉的兄弟加布里埃尔（加里·西尼斯 Gary Sinise 饰）预谋抢劫一家赌场，在威逼利诱之间，鲁迪也入伙了。
