TIFF17 Reviews: ‘The Disaster Artist’ and ‘Zama’
THE DISASTER ARTIST
The Disaster Artist is a real Hollywood biopic about the infamous writer-director of the so-bad-it’s-good classic The Room, Tommy Wiseau, and simultaneously a feature-length showcase of James Franco’s well-researched impression of him—so that it even remotely works, let alone actually functions as a warm, empathetic portrait of the audacity/resilience of performing and putting yourself out into the world Read more →