The ominous downpours that have drenched much of recent Asian cinema soak New York in "Dark Water," the well-crafted but thoroughly unsuspenseful Hollywood debut by Brazilian director Walter Salles.

If you’ve seen Ring, Ring 2, or Dark Water in their Japanese (or American) incarnations, you know that the fount of all this creepiness, director Hideo Nakata, is obsessed with the primal drama of bad ...

The ominous downpours that have drenched much of recent Asian cinema soak New York in "Dark Water," the well-crafted but thoroughly unsuspenseful Hollywood debut by Brazilian director Walter Salles.