Movie Review: Provocative, genre-bending ‘A Different Man’ gets under our skin in unexpected ways

Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don’t like — with only movie-star beauty remaining. How would it change your life? In Aaron Schimberg's third feature, the writer-director works with confidence and brio, writes Associated Press critic Jocelyn Noveck in her review, and directs a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Adam Pearson. Working for the first third of the film in elaborate prosthetic makeup, Stan captures a man used to loneliness and self-doubt, until everything changes miraculously when his appearance changes. But how deep are those changes, and to what extent has his character become “a different man?” Opens in theaters Friday.