Your Friends & Neighbors

(PolyGram)

Neil LaBute gives us more humans behaving badly with these three pairs of unhappy men and women: crassly egotistical Cary (Jason Patric); smarmy theater professor Jerry (Ben Stiller); Barry (Aaron Eckhart), who has his best sex with himself; Barry's understandably not too thrilled wife, Mary (Amy Brenneman); Jerry's flinty girlfriend, Terri (Catherine Keener); and the "artist's assistant," Cheri (Nastassja Kinski), whom Terri takes a shine to. There's nothing new here, just shrewd, uncompromising performances and LaBute's brutally insightful screenplay.