It’d be inaccurate to classify Abbas Kiarostami’s 1990 film Close-Up as “suspense,” though it does get more gripping as it plays on, if more on a philosophical and spiritual level than a narrative one ...

Picture Hannibal Lecter’s unnerving state in Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs,” the intense eye contact of Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly,” the intimate gazes in Barry ...