“Wander” (*1/2 out of four) was a pointless crime melodrama about a mentally unstable private investigator (Aaron Eckhart) who is hired to investigate a suspicious death in the title town of Wander and soon becomes convinced that this death is linked to a conspiracy and cover-up that entailed the death of his daughter. Aptly titled story meanders and wanders through all-too-familiar and unpleasant terrain; first-rate cast (including Tommy Lee Jones and Heather Graham) is unable to enrich the proceedings and film ends with obtuse abruptness. Eckart played a similar role in the far more potent and effective “Rabbit Hole” years earlier.

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