Deborah Ross

All dressed up, nowhere to go

Warren Beatty the producer should have had a word with Warren Beatty the director and asked: why? why? why?

issue 22 April 2017

Rules Don’t Apply is Warren Beatty’s first film appearance in 15 years and his first as writer, director, producer and star since Bulworth, 19 years ago. Plenty of time, then, to figure out what he wanted to say, and how he wanted to say it, but Rules is entirely baffling.

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