The Nines (2007)

John August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era "Twilight Zone" of image and reality.

It's an intricate, at times incoherent, but often funny and consistently fascinating trio of stories with the same actors in different but related roles.

This movie is metaphysical fun, and while some elements are predictable, it’s an engaging mystery.

Rather than come across as fantastic or dreamlike, the stories have a vivid, hyperreal quality to them.

It's an overall heady conceit about image and invention, clever and fun with compelling lead performances -- especially Reynolds, who finally gets to show some chops in a career littered with Van Wilder–grade junk.