In the Canadian thriller "The Burial Society," a bespectacled nebbish of a businessman takes refuge from a murky past by finding acceptance in the Chevrah Kadisha, a group of elderly Jewish men entrusted to the ritual preparation of bodies for interment. The milieu is certainly an original one and first-time feature filmmaker Nicholas Racz has obviously done his homework, but in terms of execution, this non-secular variation on "The Usual Suspects" falls prey to a creeping structural rigor mortis that sets in early.

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