The movie ends up far too restrained by its crowd-pleasing-comedy machinations to be about the very ideas it introduces.

F rom her decades on Broadway going back to the 1950s, through to almost a half-century of films, including her celebrated turn in Alexander Payne's 2014 Nebraska, June Squibb has ...

Hollywood’s highest-paid actress goes to Cannes with her directorial debut, an uplifting drama — starring 95-year-old June Squibb — about fresh starts and facing your demons.

The star came across the script for “Eleanor the Great,” already starring June Squibb, and instantly realized, “I know how to ...

Sony Pictures Classics kicked off its Oscar campaign in style for the dramedy, starring June Squibb and Erin Kellyman, about "Jewish identity, friendship...and most of all forgiveness." ...

Don’t let the title fool you. Eleanor the Great is not some royal costume epic set in 1566. Instead Scarlett Johansson‘s wonderful and richly textured feature directorial debut is a small but ...

Amidst the Cannes premiere of 'Eleanor the Great,' Scarlett Johansson says she 'veered off' path of directing.

The script of “Eleanor the Great,” by Tory Kamen, doesn’t stint on the sitcom sarcasm, and that’s both a plus and a minus. There’s no denying that as a character, Eleanor plays ...

Scarlett Johansson addressed the 'weird timing' of working with Justin Baldoni's Wayfarer Studios on her new movie, amid his legal battle with Blake Lively ...

The 'Thelma' actress plays an older woman who tells a lie that takes on a life of its own in a film co-starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Erin Kellyman and Jessica Hecht.

Impersonally directed by one of the most famous people in the world, “Eleanor the Great” is the near-opposite of auteur fare. Filmmaker Scarlett Johansson wouldn’t have it any other way ...