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" Insomnia never really got the same shake as Christopher Nolan&amp;#039;s other movies, having come between the breakout success of Memento and what might be called his breakout-breakout Maker of Gloomy Blockbusters phase. Like, well, all of Nolan&amp;#039;s movies, it&amp;#039;s visually exciting and a bit lacking elsewhere, but it&amp;#039;s a tight thriller with possibly more going for it now than when it came out: It retroactively plays on our post-Palin fascination with backwoods Alaska \u2014 the horror is always cast in daylight \u2014 and it has Al Pacino in one of his hopped-up roles, Robin Williams in one of those creepy roles he was doing then, and Hilary Swank in the kind of role she sadly never gets anymore. Fortunately, it was a couple Norwegians who came up with the story and not Nolan. (The original Stellan Skarsg\u00E5rd-starring film, though not available instantaneously, is also worth checking out.) As The Dark Knight Rises pushes for every Oscar it can get, you may want to try revisiting. Watch now on Netflix.com. MORE NETFLIX RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE CULTURE BLOG &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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