New Chris Rock Film Puts Los Angeles Under the Microscope, Opens Its American Run in New York

"Misty Green," a feature directed by Chris Rock with Los Angeles as its subject, has screened for American audiences for the first time at the New York Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rock has now directed four features, and this is the latest. Rosalind Eleazar, known for her work on the series "Slow Horses," plays the lead. The Hollywood Reporter's review calls her work in the role exceptional and says the film establishes her as a star. The publication describes Rock's treatment of the city as precise and exacting. For readers in Beverly Hills, that makes "Misty Green" a close study of their own region by a director who gives it his full attention. The New York screening begins the film's life in the United States.

With reporting from The Hollywood Reporter.