Joshua

I didn't know anything about last year's suspense movie Joshua, so was pleasantly surprised to see Nico Muhly's name roll across the screen as the film's composer. (His soundtrack was the high point in a pretty turgid movie.)  The young title character's the "bad seed" type, capable of some really sinister thoughts and actions.  He hates soccer and baseball, but excessively plays minor-key vignettes on the piano; understandably his dad starts to worry. Of course his family is generally pretty forgiving to his foreboding eccentricities until he gives a school piano recital. Instead of properly playing his rehearsed "classical" piece, he shocks everyone with some stray atonal chords. Then it hits them that their kid is really wicked.  It's one of the corniest and campiest plot-turns in recent memory.