Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson Have a Mismatched Genre Face-Off in Verity

Verity review: Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson elevate a pulpy, twisted thriller

Verity movie review: Michael Showalter's Verity follows a writer drawn into a bestselling author's disturbing private world. Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson anchor a glossy thriller that raises sharper questions than it answers.

Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson have a mismatched genre face-off in Verity

“I have resting boredom face,” explains not-quite-successful novelist Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) during the semi-tawdry thriller Verity. Johnson’s quietly disaffected mien has come across as at least somewhat self-aware in other movies, but her characters are rarely allowed to be so upfront about it. Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), a fellow writer whose life and career Lowe comes to covet, doesn’t offer quite so blunt a self-assessment; sh…

Verity Review: Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson And Josh Hartnett Go Unhinged

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The truth is only Hathaway sizzles in Verity

When you’re a struggling writer, you’ll take any employment opportunities. So it is with Verity protagonist, Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a novelist whose works languish in obscurity. That’s why, when she’s offered the chance to ghostwrite a new book for famous, newly incapacitated author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), she reluctantly accepts. Even when the job demands she stay at Verity’s gorgeous, snow-covered Vermont home with the autho…