The directorial debut of veteran screenwriter Scott Frank (Minority Report, Out of Sight), The Lookout is a neat little thriller that centers around a young man, Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who was left with a moderate brain trauma after a car accident. While outwardly, Chris might look fine, his injury makes it hard for him to do simple things like cook dinner or talk to girls—he has trouble putting things in sequence. After a seemingly chance encounter with charismatic Gary Spargo (Matthew Goode) and a beautiful woman (Isla Fisher), Chris gets embroiled in a risky scheme. There’s a slew of excellent performances here, from Gordon-Levitt, who has become an extremely versatile leading man (if you haven’t seen Brick, you’re missing out), and Jeff Daniels, as Lewis, Chris’s blind roommate. This could have been a paint-by-numbers kind of flick, but it ends up being an interesting portrait of a disabled character, without veering into weepy, maudlin territory.