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Jan 22, 2015 · “The Humbling” metamorphoses from an exploration of a veteran actor’s artistic process, and the particular wisdom he has acquired, into a lighter, freewheeling satire of male insecurity in a ...
- Stephen Holden
- Barry Levinson
Jan 23, 2015 · “The Humbling” is based on Philip Roth’s 2009 novel of the same name, and in typical Roth fashion, it features an older man and a younger woman in a relationship which may seem ill-advised and even toxic, but provides some fulfillment for both parties in unusual ways.
Jan 26, 2015 · “The Humbling” reveals an ominous gulf between the director and his theme, never wider than when Simon attends group therapy at the sanatorium.
Jan 21, 2015 · Al Pacino does shamble convincingly through Barry Levinson’s new dramedy, “The Humbling.”
- Elizabeth Weitzman
Dec 5, 2014 · MPAA rating: R for sexual material, language, brief violence. Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes. Playing: Laemmle’s Town Center 5, Encino. Al Pacino marks one of his finest feature...
Jan 21, 2015 · The Humbling is about an actor struggling to use his observations and intuition to make sense of his most important character—himself—and to discover whether he still has a normal range of feeling. It’s about the actor who plays that actor, too.
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Jan 23, 2015 · Based on Philip Roth’s novel, The Humbling tells the story of a legendary stage actor who has an affair with a lesbian woman half his age at a secluded country house in Connecticut. Simon Axler (Al Pacino) has known nothing but the stage since he was thirteen.
