I enjoyed “Onion” for its mobius strip script and wily acting, and “Pale Blue Eye” mostly for Masanobu Takayanagi’s mesmerizing cinematography and Howard Shore’s moody score.
Now here’s something you don’t come across every day: a mash-up of a Western, a serial-killer mystery and a feminist-inflected tale of life in a bordello. But Jane Smiley’s “A Dangerous Business” is a.