'The End of the Affair': Neil Jordan's Comeback

By STEVE VINEBERG

The best movie in theaters this winter is The End of the Affair, Neil Jordan's adaptation of Graham Greene's odd, mesmerizing 1951 novel. The Irish-born Jordan is on an undeniable hot streak. Last February, he released a poetic, unsettling little thriller, In Dreams, which arrived and vanished so quietly that almost no one knew it had been...