Critic Rolls His Eyes at Rosario Dawson's NYT Character
Though relatively limited, the pantheon of New York Times reporters committed to film and TV has included such memorable characters as Sam Waterston’s Sydney Schanberg in 1984’s The Killing Fields and Matt Borner‘s Felix Turner in this year’s HBO drama The Normal Heart.
Another NYT movie reporter is about to hit the big screen, via Chris Rock‘s Top Five. But according to Grantland’s Wesley Morris, this newsroom derivation is memorable for entirely different reasons:
Rock stars as Andre Allen, a recovering alcoholic and comedy star being trailed by the least-likely-ever culture reporter for The New York Times.
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