At 82 minutes, "Desierto" only achieves near-feature length by padding a thin concept with endless shots of actors scrambling for their lives around, through, and over rocks, dead trees, cactus, pebbles, scrub, and rattlesnakes.

It's great to report that summers are no longer a dead zone at the movies for adults.

Henry James wrote what is perhaps the greatest "unreliable narrator" tale in the English language.