Wrong About 'The Night Listener'

Dear Editor,
    I am curious whether your movie reviewers are required to actually watch the movies that they review. In his recent review of The Night Listener [Film Listings, Aug. 4], Marc Savlov states that "this taut, wiry exercise in eerie bad vibes saddles its protagonist ... with not only the death of his longtime companion (Cannavale), but also an increasingly bizarre series of events." One of the major plot points of the movie is that the Jess character (played by Cannavale) has recovered his health and subsequently moved out of Gabriel's home. For Mr. Savlov to think that the character had died, he either must not have seen the movie at all or slept through major portions of it. This makes me question the reliability of future reviews by Mr. Savlov.

   [Film Editor Marjorie Baumgarten replies: Oops. This is actually an editing error that occurred when condensing Savlov's review to capsule length, and not the author's mistake. Savlov's full-length review states that the protagonist is saddled with "not only the unexpected exit of his longtime companion Jess (Cannavale ...)." An unfortunate editing error converted this into with "the death of his longtime companion." We regret the error.]