By Stephanie Zacharek for LA Weekly, 21 January 2015
There’s something bracingly honest about The Humbling, Barry Levinson’s movie about a 67-year-old Shakespearean actor, played by Al Pacino, who, after being struck with crippling anxiety, gets his mojo restored — some of it, anyway — by a manipulative muse (Greta Gerwig). Based on the 2009 Philip Roth novel of the same name, this is a movie made by an old man, about an old man, starring an old man, from source material written by an old man. But Levinson and Pacino’s willingness to explore the creakier end of life isn’t a drawback; it’s what gives The Humbling its bittersweet vitality.
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