ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS 

JANUARY 29, 2021

Timber!

Today chief critic Richard Lawson contemplates the vicissitudes of Justin Timberlake’s career as a movie actor, and bears some bad news about his return to the big screen in Palmer. The movie, Lawson writes, is the latest entry in the maudlin “kid-teaches-adult genre.” It does nothing to cement Timberlake’s reputation. “Will this decidedly 21st-century child help the stunted, nearing-40 millennial learn to live again on the backroads of rural Louisiana? Reader, he will.” 

Elsewhere in HWD, Armie Hammer says goodbye to another role; writer-director Zoe Lister-Jones talks about channeling COVID fears into a new movie; our Little Gold Men team examines the latest awards developments; and V.F. moderates a panel with some of Netflix’s most exciting documentary filmmakers.

Justin Time

Timberlake returns as a leading man.

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Dropping the Hammer

Armie Hammer parts ways with a second role in the wake of a troubling scandal.

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Fear Factor

Zoe Lister-Jones finds inspiration in pandemic anxiety.

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The Race Is On

V.F.’s Little Gold Men team takes the Oscars’ pulse, and talks to some possible contenders.

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From Our Partners: POV

Four Netflix documentary filmmakers talk about the search for meaning.

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