Toronto film festival: There’s a stunning lead performance from the breakout British actor but the film surrounding her can’t quite match what she’s bringing There’s a mighty, all-guns-blazing ...

Nature has blessed certain types of carnivorous plants with pretty colors, pleasant fragrances, and sticky, sugary emissions, all the better to attract and trap its prey. You can say the same thing ...

TORONTO – Chris Rock draws laughs when he admits that he loves "a messy woman.” Casting for one in a movie can be serious business. For his new drama “Misty Green,” a sharp satire of the Hollywood ...

In his first movie since "Top Five," Rock confirms he's a major filmmaker. It doesn’t help that Misty is an unapologetic party girl. She likes to drink, drug, and fuck whoever to the point that it’s ...

I have to confess I am a sucker for down-on-your-luck Hollywood stories, especially movies about actresses who once had success and are now scraping the bottom. Of course there is the classic of ...

Misty Green earned an appreciative reaction from the TIFF crowd, but Eleazar's performance won the biggest applause in the room and seems like the movie's best bid for awards attention as it makes its ...

Much like its title character, the Hollywood drama Misty Green is angry, a bit of a mess and hard to shake. Chris Rock’s fourth feature is powered by Rosalind Eleazar’s expertly jagged performance as ...

Roughly two-thirds through “Misty Green,” Rosalind Eleazar takes a breath and lets a rendition of “One Night Only,” from the musical “Dreamgirls,” rip. The characters around her go quiet, and the ...

TIFF: The "Slow Horses" star is tremendous as a faded Black TV actress whose tendency for self-sabotage threatens to derail her comeback role. As Rock takes pains to remind us in the photo montage ...

The character study centers on a talented but self-sabotaging actress and singer looking to restart her career, with an ensemble that includes the writer-director alongside Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya ...