Grant’s fictional acclaimed author J.M. Sinclair — more than a bit smugly — in the prologue to “The Lesson ... aspiring scribe Liam (Daryl McCormack) figures he’s landed a dream ...

It’s as though The Lesson, and everyone involved, is winking at the audience through the serious material that lingers, intentionally, on the fine line between pretentious and provocative. Daryl ...

In Alice Troughton’s “The Lesson,” a strapping and handsome young man named Liam Sommers (Daryl McCormack, “Peaky Blinders”) – (even his name sounds young), an aspiring writer ...

Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack make for a tantalizing trio in the new thriller "The Lesson," which marks the impressive feature film debuts of director Alice Troughton and ...

Tipperary actor Daryl McCormack is back on the big screen next month - and in the best of company - in the new thriller The Lesson. The synopsis of The Lesson reads: "Liam (Daryl McCormack), an ...

That question looms large in “The Lesson,” in some ways intentionally, in other ways not. Impeccably acted — by Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy and Daryl McCormack in the main roles — the ...

Richard E. Grant and Daryl McCormack star as writers with similar source material in a feature tracing the limits of literary authorship. By Carlos Aguilar In “The Lesson,” an amusingly taut ...

Grant and Daryl McCormack are writers mutually feeding ... cue for a “Tár”-like satire of toadying in the arts, “The Lesson” instead answers it with a brisk cut to the relatively recent ...

The seemingly innocent arrival of Liam (Daryl McCormack), a hunky recent graduate ... it’s never quite clear who is manipulating whom. The Lesson Rated R for Delpy en déshabillé and Grant ...

Yet, 'The Lesson' so often falls victim to tired tropes, hackneyed writing, and obvious choices all round. The first time we see Daryl McCormack, he's taking off his shirt and exposing his ...

Our own Daryl McCormack is Liam, an aspiring novelist ... It’s a tad too rich, too jumbled, too clever for its own good. Indeed, The Lesson fancies itself as an edgy, elaborate thriller.

Richard E. Grant, Daryl McCormack, Julie Delpy, and Stephen McMillan in The Lesson Photo: Anna Patarakina, Courtesy of Bleecker Street But soon, Liam realizes that he is ensnared in a web of ...