The Disaster Artist

Actor-director delves deep into the making of 'The Room' and turns in a hilarious, moving ode to art, strange accents and friendship.

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Legendary oddball auteur Tommy Wiseau (“The Room”) gets his own “Ed Wood” in this funny and sweetly sad portrait.

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James Franco is wonderfully weird in The Disaster Artist.

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A valentine to movies and an ode to the stinkers which we love and can’t live without, Franco exudes cinematic passion with his finest directorial outing yet.

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It will be interesting to see how outsiders will react to another behind-the-scenes tell-all, especially as some of the film’s best jokes derive from questions that first-time viewers of “The Room” have while watching.

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James Franco pulls off what Tommy Wiseau only dreamed of.

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The Disaster artist is obscurest hilarity set to a filmmaker's struggle, all linked to James Franco's transformative performance as the mythical Tommy Wiseau.

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The story behind cult movie The Room is brought to life with affection and painstaking detail and features a staggering transformation from the lead.

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California, the late ’90s. Struggling actor Greg Sestero (Franco) befriends amateur actor Tommy Wiseau (Franco). Together, they move to Hollywood to follow their dreams. When Hollywood rejects them, they endeavour to make The Room — a film that would later become notorious as being one of the worst ever made.

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How James Franco made the ‘worst movie ever’ into something good.

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It perfectly communicates the surreal hell of what the original production of The Room must have been like.

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James Franco embraces eccentricity in hilarious 'The Disaster Artist'

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James Franco’s body of work as a director demonstrates an “I’ll do it my way” cockiness that even his most ardent of critics begrudgingly admire.

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The most fascinating movie of James Franco's wildly eccentric oeuvre, this studio-made comedy parodies — but somehow fails to understand — world's most misunderstood filmmaker.

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It’s a divertingly funny movie, but its breeziness can also feel overstated, at times glib and a bit of a dodge.

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The Disaster Artist is a lousy tribute to the greatest bad movie of our time.

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This sweet, affectionate (and unapologetically slight) comedy is an all-too-rare homage to harmless, hilarious incompetence, at a time when there is plenty of the more hurtful kind to go around. If it isn’t quite up to the standards of “Ed Wood,” Tim Burton’s 1994 tribute to the auteur of such misbegotten fruits of moviemaking as “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” it is nonetheless a much-needed distraction.

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The enigma of Wiseau is only partly addressed by James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist”.

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James Franco's ode to a schlock auteur and his 'so bad, it's good' flop.

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