The killer himself takes a far more prominent role in this edition, and as played by the superb Tobin Bell he’s quite a memorable creation. Soft-voiced and physically frail because of the cancer ravaging his body, the diabolical Jigsaw is...

Cinema’s reinvigorated fixation with the living dead suggests that we are in the grip of an impossible longing, or perhaps it’s just another movie cycle running its course. Whatever the case, there is something heartening about Mr....