“Puzzle” (*1/2 out of four) was an incomprehensible melodrama about a middle-aged mom (Kelly Macdonald) who feels taken for granted in her unfulfilled life and soon finds she has a gift for solving jigsaw puzzles which draws her into a mysterious world and a heated affair with a puzzle-expert (Irrfan Khan) which soon leads her to her own puzzle and crossroads in life. Potentially affecting story of loneliness, middle-aged confusion, and love is undone by molasses pacing and meandering story which makes this a pretentious snooze instead. Macdonald’s sincere performance deserved a much stronger script and direction. Many critics loved this film (it won some awards at the Sundance Film Festival) but I’m not one of them.