Norton's Noir Nouveau
Fall, 2019
With Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton has created a movie as intelligent, complex and politically engaged as the man himselfThe thing about Edward Norton is he was never really here—or so it seemed. Sure, as a 26-year-old in his first big movie, 1996’s Primal Fear, his hair-raising performance as a possibly homicidal altar boy nabbed him an Oscar nomination. Critics and moviegoers started asking, between breathless comparisons to everyone from DiCaprio to Hoffman, Who is this guy?But as vivid...
