Rowan Joffe
Movie Review: Brighton Rock
It’s the Mods versus the Rockers in Rowan Joffe’s glossy update of Graham Greene’s canonical 1937 literary thriller Brighton Rock. Transposing the setting from pre-war England to the era of “teddy boys” on scooters, director Joffe graduates from BBC television movies to his first feature—an assured effort masking a lack of suspenseful drive and only scratching the surface of Greene’s ponderings on...[Read More]