Genius (2016)
First screened in June 2016
Director: Michael Grandage. Cast: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Vanessa Kirby, Elaine Caulfield. Screenplay: John Logan (based on the biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg). Twitter Capsule:
Wholly, deliciously, incontrovertibly awful, like the film where Heather Graham is a UK book editor hunted by a mountaineer.
VOR:①
Risible in execution, at every level, squandering what little potential remains palpable in the script. The few risks it takes, like its gray-and-sepia look, all backfire.
