Another behind-the-scenes, semi-biographic glimpse into Hollywood’s past, along the lines of My Week With Marilyn. Up-and-coming Life magazine photog Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson) is prescient enough to sell his editor on a layout featuring a relatively unknown, yet divinely dynamic youngster named James Dean (Dane DeHaan). (Stock thinks the youngster stands as a symbol of what he sees as a new movement in acting.) DeHaan, at times looking more like Dean Stockwell than Dean, captures the actor’s movement and mumbly cadence, but it’s Pattinson’s quiet underplaying, as he waits for a tidal wave of resentment to come crashing to shore, that neatly steals every scene. The casting of supporting actors to resemble the film’s star players — Ben Kingsley as Jack Warner, Alessandra Mastronardi as Pier Angeli, Lauren Gallagher as Natalie Wood, and particularly Kelly McCreary as Eartha Kitt — is to be commended, as are cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen’s dusky hues and production designer Anastasia Masaro’s spot-on period decor. Former still photographer Anton Corbijn (A Most Wanted Man) directs. (2015) — Scott Marks
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