A middle-tier marriage drama distinguished by an excellent Paul Giamatti. Richler’s tome takes the form of Barney’s memoir (written in response to a nemesis’ slanderous allegations), allowing the ...

“Barney's Version” demonstrates that the whole story is never enough. So far the year's best title goes to the wry drama “Barney's Version,” so direct is its meaning and yet so elusive is its promise.

A middle-tier marriage drama distinguished by an excellent Paul Giamatti. Richler’s tome takes the form of Barney’s memoir (written in response to a nemesis’ slanderous allegations), allowing the ...

It's no surprise it took 13 years to bring Mordecai Richler's last novel, Barney's Version, to the screen. The book, with its erudite, unreliable narrator, who is justifying his life through a fog of ...

Throughout Hollywood’s golden age rarely did character actors graduate into leading roles. Frank McHugh and Mary Wickes were almost always the buddy or the maid in studio features. That really started ...

Movies, which respond so easily to the sudden breaking and reforming of time, often struggle with the sheer mass of the life tale, be it real or imagined, and the literary structure of Richler’s book ...

Please note: one or two mild spoilers are in this review, in case you’ve not heard them already. If you haven’t, you might want to steer clear until you’ve seen the film. Paul Giamatti, actor par ...