Natalie Guevara

In town last week to promote their concert documentary, Shine a Light, the Rolling Stones found themselves in a very posh and decidedly un-rock ’n’ roll conference room in the Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue. Sitting before a crowd of adoring media, they seemed both amused and a little embarrassed by the spectacle, but they played along like champs.

If you’re the lead star of a film titled In Bruges, it’s only natural that press time leads to loads of questions about, well, Bruges.

Given the highly-charged political and racial climate currently surrounding Columbia—not to mention the Supreme Court’s recent refusal to hear the case of a German citizen who claims he was abducted and tortured by CIA agents while imprisoned in Afghanistan—a film such as the torture-by-proxy thriller Rendition, which opened Friday, could not have arrived at a more opportune time.

Lonely Hearts shows all the signs of an average true-crime film: a promotional poster baring the images of its solemn-faced stars; a sleek, neo-noir look and feel; fast-paced criminal hijinks; and Tony Soprano providing voice-over narration.