<em>Motherless Brooklyn </em>Is a Passion Project Without Heart
Edward Norton’s adaptation of the 1999 novel feels like a glassy diorama of a gumshoe thriller.
,Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel, was defined partly by nostalgia. Set in contemporary times, it had the flavor of a classic gumshoe thriller from the ’50s, a pulpy chronicle of detectives and gangsters on the mean streets of New York. Now Edward Norton is leaning even further into the story’s throwback spirit. The Oscar-nominated actor is the writer, director, and star of a film adaptation that turns Lethem’s neo-noir into a regular old noir
