The 2000s have not been kind to filmmaker Atom Egoyan, once hailed as a visionary who could do no wrong (particularly at the Cannes Film Festivals of the mid-1990s). Egoyan's career took an unexpected downward turn once the millennium kicked it, and from there on it's been a slippery slope. Try as he might, he just can't seem to get film buffs to adore him again, and his last two films, "The Devil's Knot" and "The Captive," have had (mainly Western) critics sighing loudly and rolling their eyes — virtually, of course.