In Theaters October 5
Returning to his Florida hometown in the 1960s to solve a murder case, a star reporter (Matthew McConaughey) finds that no secret is too dirty, no sex too kinky, to be exposed in a Southern gothic melodrama. In his first film since Precious, director Lee Daniels assembles a distinguished cast—including Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Scott Glenn and, as McConaughey’s younger brother, Zac Efron—for a sub-Faulknerian wallow so lurid, it earned boos and a few cheers from the Cannes critics.