Wednesday, November 11, 2026

UPDATE: Right Wing Produced “Confession” Plays Just Tonight in 100 Theaters with James Franco, Rob Lowe amid Vicious Letterboxd Comments

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I told you a couple of weeks ago about “Confession.”

It’s made by the right wing Daily Wire, and written by their Ben Shapiro.

There’s also a cast that would probably prefer we don’t see it. It was a payday for people like Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh. No one told them what was going on.

“Confession” plays once in 100 theaters tonight, then moves to the Daily Wire website, where it will never be spoken of again.

Only two official reviews exist. Someone obviously either forced or dared Frank Scheck to see it. He writes: “Confession proves a dull, turgid slog.”

Frank continues: “Except possibly for the casting of James Franco in a major role, which, like the presence of Jonathan Majors in the company’s recent ‘Run Hide Fight: Infidels,'”‘ seems designed to give a middle finger to the Hollywood studios for shunning them.”

A couple of people on Letterboxd really hated it. One says: “No one emerges unscathed.”

Another observed:” the movie lost me the second NKVD agent Franco started pretentiously name-dropping russian writers while pouring like 250 ml of vodka into a cheap-ass IKEA glass”

All those quotes will go on on the poster.

For the Razzies, this is the one to look out for! Tom Cruise is safe now!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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