Weekend Movie Forecast: The Soloist Vs. Tyson

The Informers is why Billy Bob Thorton had to appear on Jimmy Kimmel to shrug off the extreme nastiness he unleashed on a radio host who dared mention his acting career during an interview about his music. The movie is Bret Easton Ellis's adaptation of his own novel about assorted savory characters moping through the hell of early-'80s LA. The reviews are scathing, but Tom Long at the Detroit News really goes full Bale: "The Informers is such a wretched piece of garbage that there's a certain amount of guilt attached to even writing about it. This film deserves as little notice as possible, mankind being far better with it far off the grid of consciousness. But such are the responsibilities of film criticism... The characters are uniformly unlikable, the stories contrived and disjointed, the insights non-existent. Honestly, it's hard to recall a film more incompetent and downright repellent."