

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Reviews
βLee Israel was selfish, cold, sad, and disreputable. She was also really fun to know. Sookie nails this one.β
β Rodney Wollam
β 9βMad props to Melissa McCarthy for turning it around with this after _Happytime Murders_ and _Life of the Party_. Actually after basically every single thing I've seen her in up until this point. Iβ¦β
β Gimly
β 6Read moreβ**_Unexpectedly emotional, with a towering central performance_** > _I had never known anything but up in my career, had never received even one of those formatted no-thank-you slips that successfulβ¦β
β Stephen Campbell
β 8Read moreβMelissa McCarthy is outstanding in this retrospective dealing with the more "creative" aspects of the later career of acclaimed author Lee Israel. She genuinely elicits sympathy for the emptiness in,β¦β
β CinemaSerf
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