
The Guest (15)
dir: Adam Wingard
The PR spiel for The Guest, a new thriller, promises: “Dan Stevens as you’ve never seen him before!” This leaves the field open for those of us who have only ever regarded this British actor as simpering and insipid. But perhaps it wasn’t just his Downton Abbey character who died in a car crash several Christmases ago. From this distance, it appears that Stevens was also killing off his old image, foppish flyaway hairdo and all.