The Last Rites of Joe May: Tribeca Review
Dennis Farina gets the enviable opportunity to humanize the kind of character he has sometimes exaggerated comically in glossier films.
NEW YORK — An elegy for a nobody who, with a break or two, might have amounted to something, Joe Maggio'sThe Last Rites of Joe May provides star Dennis Farina the enviable opportunity to humanize the kind of character he has sometimes exaggerated comically in glossier films. Though too downbeat to be considered mainstream anytime after 1980, the drama's convincing performances and sense of place could pay off at the arthouse.
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