The actor returns to the director’s chair for a respectable if heavy-going adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s best-selling crime thriller
This film is a labour of love from its writer-producer-director-star Edward Norton, as loving as it is laborious, maybe. Motherless Brooklyn is an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s bestselling novel about a
New York private detective with Tourette syndrome – Norton has been developing this for the screen pretty much ever since its publication in 1999, and it is good to see him get it over the finish line.
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