Reviews have always been a strange business for filmmaker Josh Trank.
His first film, the scrappy found-footage superhero drama “Chronicle,” was a commercial success that earned stellar reviews from outfits as seemingly disparate as The New Yorker and the niche blog Fanboys of the Universe.
His followup, the 2015 “Fantastic Four” reboot, is destined to go down as one of contemporary Hollywood’s biggest bombs, a reviled big screen disaster that earned terrible reviews and worse box office receipts.
And yet for Trank, the reviews — both good and bad — remain at such odds with his own vision that it was difficult for them to land with any real force.That’s not the case with his latest, the Tom Hardy-starring “Capone,” Trank’s long-in-the-works return to the big screen, an anti-gangster movie that dismantles the mythos of Al “Scarface” Capone by chronicling his (literally) messy final year.
Trank didn’t
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