Shia LaBeouf makes a striking convict, as David Mamet tries to take us out of our comfort zone. But he has created an overly rarefied discomfort zone.

Adapted from Mamet’s 2023 stage play, the film reunites the play’s original cast — LaBeouf, Evan Jonigkeit, Chris Bauer and Dominic Hoffman — in a moral drama about a man whose act of ...

Gene’s scheme regarding Henry’s therapist’s gun foreshadows Henry Johnson‘s finale, which finds its protagonist holed up in the library with guard Jerry (Dominic Hoffman), whose bloody collar—paired ...

Gene’s scheme regarding Henry’s therapist’s gun foreshadows Henry Johnson‘s finale, which finds its protagonist holed up in the library with guard Jerry (Dominic Hoffman), whose bloody ...

(Dominic Hoffman, another Mamet veteran, is very good as the prison guard who patrols the library, where the final scene unfolds.) Everything is laser-focused and deadly serious, even to the cusp ...

The result is that even LaBeouf’s skill can’t keep his character’s talk from turning numbing instead of seductive, and Dominic Hoffman as a prison guard in the film’s final segment gives ...

Lamentably, the film has little choice but to follow its source material to jail, where Henry converses twice with Gene and once with a gruff corrections officer played by Dominic Hoffman.

Adapted from Mamet’s 2023 stage play, the film reunites the play’s original cast — LaBeouf, Evan Jonigkeit, Chris Bauer and Dominic Hoffman — in a moral drama about a man whose act of compassion ...