Movie review: Nobel Son -- 3 out of 5 stars

Nobel Son stars the great Alan Rickman, over-the-top and deliciously insufferable as a college chemistry professor who treats his rudeness to everyone, the graduate students he sleeps with and the Nobel Prize he's just won as nothing less than his due as a "superior intellect." He alone is worth the price of admission to this unnecessarily gruesome caper picture. But there's also Mary Steenburgen as his forensic pathologist (C.S.I.) professor wife, Danny DeVito as an obsessive compulsive neighbor and Bill Pullman as a cop who pines for the Nobel winner's wife.

By Roger Moore

December 3, 2008