Prolific Canadian director Bashar Shbib ingeniously layers three suspenseful tales on top of one another in the arthouse thriller Panic (1997). In one of the stories, a dowdy writer captures overheard conversations on a tape recorder, using the snippets of dialogue to invent imaginative tales of murder and intrigue. As it turns out, however, the writer’s merely a conceit––a character in a pulp … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review