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A Dangerous Method , the latest film from director David Cronenberg, explores the complex relationship between two men who helped shape 20th century thinking: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung .

In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Ralph Fiennes' best-reviewed films.

The British actor/filmmaker, 49, has just won a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for his film adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

On the one hand, it does seem a little out of character for David Cronenberg, the Canadian director best known for his intense, disturbing genre work, to offer up "A Dangerous Method," a chatty, disciplined period piece about the birth of psychoanalysis.

Opens Friday A Dangerous Method Directed by David Cronenberg Princess Theatre It may not first seem it, but this drama about the origins of psychoanalysis, adapted by Christopher Hampton from his own play, finds its ideal interpreter in David Cronenberg, who has, after all, forged his career by studying the beast within, and has always conveyed a ... (more)