Review of American Pastoral (2016) by Glenn Kenny for RogerEbert.com — 20 Oct 2016

A staggering misfire on two discrete levels. As an adaptation of the 1997 novel by Philip Roth, it is lead-footed and inept. The screenplay, by John Romano, treats the narrative in a way that strongly suggests what I hope was a willful misreading of the book.

But even considered entirely separately from its source material, American Pastoral is hopelessly weak.