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.
