Our 'Dick-ish' times

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan's take on The Adjustment Bureau, a new movie based on a short story by legendary science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick: "What makes Dick so appealing to our wary, distrustful state of mind is, in novelist Jonathan Lethem's words, his 'remarkably personal vision of paranoia and dislocation.'" Hmm. Not exactly a ringing tribute to our current times, is it? Let's hope our best days are still ahead of us.