A Price Above Rubies by Stephen Farber In A Price Above Rubies another major young actress, the endearing Renee Zellweger, is cast as a superwoman. At least this movie has a novel milieu to keep us absorbed. It's set in a Hasidic section of Brooklyn, and Zellweger plays Sonia, a frustrated wife who's too gifted for her patriarchal environment and has a sexual curiosity that her husband can't accept. Writer/director Boaz Yakin deserves credit for criticizing religious fanaticism without caricaturing it mercilessly, and for inventing a gripping story. Zellweger gives a fierce and moving performance as Sonia. I only wish she had a more nuanced, less perfect character to play, especially in view of the fact that other characters in the movie have the complexity that Sonia lacks. In the small role of Sonia's provincial sister-in-law, Julianna Margulies is playing a less admirable woman, but she creates a fascinating study in the psychology of persecution, and does justice to the hidden strength of women who seem to play by the rules of their society but wield considerable power behind the scenes. What did you think of this movie? Sound off in the Movie Forum.