Barney's Version, which will open Friday, stars Paul Giamatti as the title character. The movie also features cameos by Canadian directors Denys Arcand, David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan.

Making a "life's journey" film must be difficult. The difficulty shows through the messy Barney's Version. But despite its rocky structure, this adaptation of Mordecai Richler's acclaimed novel makes ...

‘Barney’s Version” is a film a decade in the making. The unusually long development and production schedule wasn’t the result of the filmmaker fine-tuning digital-effects shots or the ...

Adapted from Mordecai Richler’s fictional autobiography by Barney Panofsky, “Barney’s Version” tells the life story of a thrice-married Canadian soap opera producer suspected of murdering ...

Once again, Giamatti embraces his inner grump in Barney’s Version, a Canadian drama based on the 1997 fictional autobiography of the same name by Mordecai Richler. While the structure of the ...

Barney's Version A middle-tier marriage drama distinguished by an excellent Paul Giamatti.

SONY PICTURESDustin Hoffman, right, and Paul Giamatti play a father and son in "Barney's Version." There are three versions to every story, as the old movie mogul used to say. My version, your ...

"Barney's Version" topped the Genie awards nomination pack landing 11, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced today at simultaneous media conferences in Montreal and Toronto.

Barney’s Version has too much plot for its own good (and I haven’t even included the parts about Barney’s father, a pugnacious retired cop played by Dustin Hoffman). There’s not enough ...

"Barney's Version" is adapted from a novel by Mordecai Richler, and some things seem to be lost in the adaptation. For example, that murder case never really comes to anything.

Barney’s Version — Film Review This impeccably cast confessional, with a pitch-perfect Paul Giamatti leading the way, nimbly traverses the four decades in its lead character's eventful life ...

Adapted from Mordecai Richler’s fictional autobiography by Barney Panofsky, “Barney’s Version” tells the life story of a thrice-married Canadian soap opera producer suspected of murdering ...