David Cronenberg’s <span class="italic">A Dangerous Method</span> makes all those Merchant/Ivory period pieces seem like <span class="italic"> Die Hard</span> sequels; this story about the curdled friendship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud makes Chess Club Treasurer seem like a far more exciting career choice than psychoanalyst. Like every director, Cronenberg has made boring movies before ( <span class="italic">M.