REALITY IS BETTER BY FAMILY STROKES NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

Never a single to decide on a single tone or milieu, Jarmusch followed his 1995 acid western “Useless Man” with this modestly budgeted but equally ambitious film about a useless male of a different kind; as tends to happen with contract killers — such as being the one Alain Delon played in Jean-Pierre Melville’s instructive “Le Samouraï�