Implicitly promising “Barney’s version” of what really happened, the film flashes back to 1974 Rome (changed from Paris, likely due to the picture’s Italian funding), where Barney ...

My version, your version — and the truth. Well, this is “Barney’s Version.” He could use someone to plead his case, too. As we watch him over the course of more than 30 years, Barney burns ...

gives a holy hell of a performance as Barney Panofsky in Barney’s Version, the Montreal soap opera producer at the center of Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel, and a character who feels like a new ...

If Giamatti’s particular brand of sad-eyed misanthropy floats your boat, you’ll enjoy Barney’s Version (Sony Pictures Classics), an overcrammed and galumphing movie that nonetheless provides ...

and he wrote his Barney's Version script on spec while moonlighting. "I did feel a little rusty at first," he said about returning to filmmaking. "My pace was too fast. I was like some hyperactive ...

I don't go out of my way to see movies he's in because his characters always come off kind of schlubby to me. With "Barney's Version," however, I think he's finally got the material to give a ...

Barney's Version, adapted from the novel by Mordecai ... About 2am, he calls someone called Blair. ''Ask my wife what she wants me to do with all these naked pictures of her,'' he says.

Dustin Hoffman is stellar as Barney's aging, roguish dad, a retired cop and widower who, with charm to spare, always manages to be politically incorrect. Rosamund Pike is convincing as the ...