Now comes Shirley, a new film directed by Josephine Decker, which stars an unsurprisingly superb Elisabeth Moss as Jackson herself. But this isn't a biopic in any straightforward sense ...

Decker revives American genre writer Shirley Jackson (embodied by Elisabeth Moss) with a concoction of fact and magical realism, which may frame the film as a radically more exciting cousin to ...

Those movies usually give him a scene or two to push the protagonists. Shirley is a back and forth between him and Moss pretty much the entire movie. Lerman is also solid as a young, idealistic ...

Moss’ Shirley is a showier performance ... then vanishes without any apparent effect on the relationships in the film. (Jackson’s biographers have speculated about her sexual orientation ...

Shirley is no typical biopic. Based on the fictionalised Shirley: A Novel by Susan Scarf Merrell and set in the 1950s, the film follows Fred (Logan Lerman) and his wife Rose (Odessa Young) when ...

Reality-bending indie director Josephine Decker proves the perfect match for this playful psychological study of novelist Shirley Jackson, starring a wild-eyed Elisabeth Moss. If Jackson’s gift ...

And so begins this creepy and terrific film about horror/mystery writer ... Michael Stuhlbarg, left, and Elisabeth Moss in “Shirley.” Rose is almost obscenely nubile, her dewy pink face ...

It is not surprising to see Neon behind the indie film Shirley. The movie won acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has a sterling cast led by Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg and ...

If such a thing as the Oscars actually happens this benighted year of closed theaters and new movies watched on old computers, Elisabeth Moss is likely to win one. “Shirley” is available to ...

Shirley is the first time in Moss’s three-decades-long career that ... Countless women wrote to her after the film came out – one of the last big releases pre-pandemic, it made $134m at ...

Decker revives American genre writer Shirley Jackson (embodied by Elisabeth Moss) with a concoction of fact and magical realism, which may frame the film as a radically more exciting cousin to ...