For the record, two stars from me is a highly recommended film of great interest and merit. Perhaps my brief review of Good Will Hunting didn't quite do it justice.

Anyway, four films since going to bed last night.

Performance
Nicolas Roeg/Donald Cammell 1970 GB (1st time)
A London gangster moves in with a retired rock musician.
A complex blanket of identity and character-switching; it conjures up a sordid world of nastiness with hallucinatory ease, and gets better as it goes on.

Irréversible (Irreversible)
Gaspar Noé 2002 France (3rd time)
When his girlfriend is raped at a party, a teacher and his friend hunt down the rapist at a gay nightclub.
Unrelenting, uncompromising, and utterly brutal depiction of humanity and the evil hole from which it cannot escape.

Solaris
Steven Soderbergh 2002 US (1st time)
A psychiatrist arrives at a space station orbiting a strange planet, where his past comes back to haunt and seduce him.
A cool, detached film full of ideas and themes but not really committing itself fully to exploring them; if the content could have been meatier, the form is fine indeed, and it must be respected as a film which bares little overall resemblance to Tarkovsky's.

Scanners
David Cronenberg 1980 US (1st time)
Telepathic humans, known as "Scanners" are employed by rival corporations to fish one another out.
Save for a few head-bursting special effects and interesting surface concept, this sci-fi action film has dated horribly; mise-en-scene, dialogue and acting let it down.