In the middle of the closing credits for Tate Taylor's new film, the director inserts a minute-long postscript scene. It's an exchange between the lead character, played by Allison Janney, and a talk show host portrayed by Juliette Lewis.
Their eyes are wild with a delicious madness, and that brief coda contains all the satiric snap that the preceding 90 minutes so sorely lack.
The story of a woman who rises out of her put-upon anonymity by spinning a tabloid-fodder lie, Breaking News in Yuba County features a pitch-perfect Janney at the center of a game cast of well-knowns.
Read more on hollywoodreporter.com