The movie opens in 1952 on the Lower East Side. Jittery young Marty Mauser, a born hustler with a sleazy mustache and a Velveeta smile, has a job selling shoes, but not for long. He’s headed to London ...

Mean-spiritedness lies in the eye of the beholder: one person’s aggressively sour-minded movie is another’s idea of delightfully jaundiced fun, and no movie this year proves that as aptly as Josh ...