Chris Rock returns to directing with the high-powered, if problematic, 'Misty Green'

NPR | By John Powers

Published October 12, 2026 at 9:18 AM EDT

Rosalind Eleazar plays a once-successful Hollywood actor whose career has taken a downward turn in a film that takes viewers to bleaker places than they might anticipate.

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John Powers is the pop culture and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air with Terri Gross.

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