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 ...

By The Associated Press Acclaimed Canadian author Mordecai Richler’s last and arguably greatest novel, “Barney’s Version,” has ... as “the true story of my wasted life,” encompassing ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...