“DVDs, DVDs, y’all. We got ‘Collateral’ on DVD!” a vendor said, a video loop of Malcolm X speeches playing on his table of wares. Last week’s New York leg of “Collateral’s” urban ...

and the mise-en-scene so overdesigned that in one shot the gas pumps are color-coordinated with the cab. But the first part of Collateral is magical anyway—the wittiest one-half-of-a-thriller I ...