Review: ‘Gaslight’ thrills with suspenseful drama but stumbles on tonal shift

Review: ‘Gaslight’ thrills with suspenseful drama but stumbles on tonal shift

In 2006, Merriam-Webster named “truthiness” its Word of the Year. Coined by comedian Stephen Colbert, the word was defined as a “seemingly” truthful quality supported not by facts, but “because of a feeling that it is true.” In 2022, the Word of the Year was “gaslighting,” a related but far more serious expression for an era in which the instability of truth has embedded itself in our “culture” (which took the honor, based in part on search data…