By ROBERT BENZIKER I FOR Battle royale with cheese Robert Benziker I For The New Mexican Lakeview Terrace, race-based thriller, rated PG-13, Regal Stadium 14, 424-6296, 3 chiles Married couple Chris and Lisa buy a house next door to Abel Turner, a conservative old-timer who has been in the neighborhood for 20 years.

By Jeff Vice Deseret News Neil LaBute could make "safer" movies if he really wanted to do so. It's just that he doesn't want to do that. "Playing it safe just doesn't interest me at this stage in the game.

By Roger Moore REVIEW Lakeview Terrace HHH RATING: PG-13 (intense thematic material, violence, sexuality, language and some drug references) DIRECTOR: Neil LaBute THEATERS: Marquee Cinemas, Park Place Stadium Cinemas "Lakeview Terrace" is a slow-burn thriller punched up by the hot- button issues it is built on.

By Ray Hogan, The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Mar. 13--Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things" is a boy-meets-girl story. The boy is a museum security guard who catches the girl with a can of spray paint ready to deface a sculpture.