Screening Room: ‘Joy’

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in ‘Joy’ (20th Century Fox)

Every holiday season now seems to come with a David O. Russell picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. This time out Lawrence plays Joy, a semi-fictionalized variation on the inspirational true story of Joy Mangano, a housewife-turned-inventor who became a multi-millionaire by creating the Miracle Mop and shilling them on QVC.

Joyopens, appropriately enough, on Christmas. My review is atFilm Journal International:...