Neil LaBute, cinema's great stirrer, is back and he's as mischievous as ever. Lakeview Terrace is the name of the area in Los Angeles where Rodney King was beaten by the LAPD in 1991. His main character – a bitter, racist African-American – is played with relish and menace by Samuel L Jackson.

Jackson's single father is the new next-door neighbour of a mixed-race couple, Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington. LaBute's not the writer this time, and this conventional genre-cinema is never quite as toe-curlingly squirmy as his own stuff, but it has considerable punch.