Scheck on the Arts

Veteran character actor Tom Skerritt plays a terminally ill man determined to end life on his own terms in East of the Mountains, the screen adaptation of David Guterson's best-selling novel. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri's documentary The Most Beautiful Boy in the World recounts the story of Björn Andrésen, who shot to fame as a teenager thanks to his appearance in the 1971 Luchino Visconti film Death in Venice. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Stefan Forbes' documentary Hold Your Fire relates the details of a 1973 Brooklyn robbery that led to the NYPD's landmark use of hostage negotiation. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently given its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A trio of African mercenaries become embroiled with malevolent supernatural forces in Jean Luc Herbulot's genre-defying Senegalese thriller Saloum. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently screened at the Toronto Film Festival, click here.

------Frank Scheck

An emotionally repressed man assumes the job of informing family members when unfortunate accidents occur in Bent Hamer's darkly satirical comedy The Middle Man. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently shown at the Toronto Film Festival, click here.

------Frank Scheck