Shame!
One year after scoring an unlikely culture-war smash, filmmaker Alejandro Monteverde has returned with a much more boring biodrama.
Tim Grierson is the Senior U.S. Critic for Screen International. His writing appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times, Vulture and Rolling Stone, and he is the author of seven books, including his latest, This Is How You Make a Movie. A member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, he co-hosts a weekly film podcast, Grierson & Leitch.
One year after scoring an unlikely culture-war smash, filmmaker Alejandro Monteverde has returned with a much more boring biodrama.
Despite great casting, AMC’s aged take on the Dashiell Hammett sleuth doesn’t quite get the pulse racing.