‘Deep Cover’

Thanks to this 1992 film’s spirit of rot and horror and an expressive performance by Jeff Goldblum (left), it’s lifted out of its class as yet another drug underworld movie. Goldblum has a high-style scariness that just about knocks you out of your seat. He plays the dealer-partner to a Cleveland cop (Laurence Fishburne, right) selected by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to infiltrate an L.A. cocaine cartel. Unfortunately, Fishburne, who can be a powerful screen presence, takes a blank approach to this role, which doesn’t provide the psychological insights Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean’s script is clearly reaching for (TMC Sunday at 10:40 p.m., Friday at 3 a.m.).