To Simon Axler, the discombobulating actor at the heart of “The Humbling,” all the world is truly a stage. That’s as much because Axler’s entire life has been about performing as well as that now, ...

“Now my charms are all o’erthrown, / And what strenth I have’s mine own, / Which is most faint…” Prospero opens his epilogue to “The Tempest” with strange and wistful words: his spells are breaking ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Director Barry Levinson, who’s been busy ...

“The Humbling” is a so-so movie you just might want to see more than once. It belongs in a strange category: a film that can’t quite be called a success, that has too many dead spots, that doesn’t ...

We have forgotten how subtle Al Pacino could be, pre-“Hooah!” Something about his Oscar-winning turn in “Scent of a Woman” unleashed the beast, a performer as big, broad and puffed up as that mountain ...

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“He’d lost his magic,” begins Philip Roth’s elegant and brutal new novella, launching right into the downfall of its protagonist, Simon Axler, a celebrated sixtysomething actor. “Instead of the ...

The Humbling stars Al Pacino as an actor confused between fantasy and reality. But despite some great performances, Nicholas Barber is left bemused by the film. Two days after the Venice Film Festival ...