Rosewater

All well and good—and, again, damn near unquestionably sincere...

Gripping, humane and lighter than it sounds, Stewart’s first foray into directing suggests that he was right to quit the day job.

Stewart has created a humane black tragicomedy...

...gripping, intelligent directorial debut of TV personality Jon Stewart, who also wrote the screenplay, based on Bahari’s post-prison memoir, “Then They Came For Me.”

Stewart deserves credit for trying to resist the inherent triumph-of-the-human-spirit proposition that haunts all movies like Rosewater...