Chris Rock Takes a Scalpel to L.A. in ‘Misty Green,’ Makes a Star of Rosalind Eleazar

Chris Rock’s fourth feature as writer-director, *Misty Green*, follows a fading actress through a chaotic week in Los Angeles as her career and personal life unravel. Rosalind Eleazar gives the title role a striking, self-destructive complexity, marking a major screen performance after her work in *Slow Horses* and other British television and theatre.

The film also serves as a bleak portrait of Hollywood and modern Los Angeles, which Rock described as a place where extreme wealth and homelessness sit close together. Anna Kendrick, Adam Driver and Daniel Kaluuya appear, but the article argues that the brother’s mental-health storyline is weakened by an unnecessary serial-killer subplot. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival.