An actor prepares to face the final curtain of his career in “The Humbling,” director Barry Levinson’s free-form adaptation of Philip Roth’s penultimate novel, about a star of stage and screen ...

We have forgotten how subtle Al Pacino could be, pre-“Hooah!” Something about his Oscar-winning turn in “Scent of a Woman” unleashed the beast, a performer as big, broad and puffed up as that mountain ...

On the shaded porch of his Beverly Hills home, Al Pacino is bright-eyed and upbeat, eager to talk about his career, his latest film and even his life in L.A. The 74-year-old actor waves toward the ...

When the aging heroes of Philip Roth’s late fiction succumb to despair, they seek redemption and renewal not through work, therapy, charity, fellowship or family but through an affair with a younger ...

After Al Pacino returned to the festival circuit with both David Gordon Green‘s Manglehorn (review) and Barry Levinson‘s The Humbling (review), the latter will be heading into theaters sooner. Ahead ...

Lately, it’s become a Hollywood staple for a bunch of old guys to get together and make movie about aging to acknowledge that career-halting trait that they all share. Most of these movies are ...

When Al Pacino read Philip Roth’s 2009 book “The Humbling” — about a leading stage actor who’s career is struggling — the material moved him so much, he snapped up its rights and brought the book to ...

To Simon Axler, the discombobulating actor at the heart of “The Humbling,” all the world is truly a stage. That’s as much because Axler’s entire life has been about performing as well as that now, ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Director Barry Levinson, who’s been busy ...

Based on a widely panned 2009 Philip Roth novel purchased for the screen by Al Pacino, “The Humbling’’ turns out to be one of the best things the Oscar-winning actor has done this century — admittedly ...

The translation of Phillip Roth’s words to the big screen has been a tricky feat for any filmmaker. You might recall the staid adaptation of The Human Stain (2003) or the bawdy spin on Goodbye ...