Topic “Greta Gerwig”

By Roger Moore (McClatchy-Tribune News Service)

ORLANDO, Fla. — For a film actor, there’s no clearer indicator that things are going your way than a summons to appear in a Woody Allen movie. Allen, the elder statesman of the American screen, provides a kind of career imprimatur to the chosen, whose ranks in recent years have included Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson, Owen Wilson and now, with...

By Christopher Borrelli (Chicago Tribune/MCT)

CHICAGO — Greta Gerwig is searching for the right words. When she does this, she tends to squeeze her eyes shut and press the palm of her left hand against her forehead, as though holding back a headache. She does this sometimes in her movies, too. Or maybe it just seems that way.

Gerwig comes off as sweetly neurotic, endearingly...