New in Theaters: Franco Behind Bars in ‘True Story’

Jonah Hill and James Franco get at the ‘True Story’ (Fox Searchlight)

It isn’t every day that you see Jonah Hill and James Franco in a film and neither one of them is mugging up a storm.True Story is a long-gestating true-crime pieceopening this week in which Hill plays a reporter and Franco a (maybe) murderer.

My review is atFilm Racket:

Between the cold-case podcast Serial and Robert Durst’s wink-wink tease on The Jinx, true crime stories in the did-he-or-didn’t-he vein are having what the...