Sebastian Stan's portrayal of Edward in "A Different Man" led some viewers to walk out of the theater. Here's why you should watch to the end.

Sebastian Stan and his two co-stars play well off one another as theater people who are far from heroic.

A Different Man is an entertaining if imperfect study of character and disability.

When a change you’ve dreamed of doesn’t solve your self-esteem problems, that’s the idea behind this sharp comedy starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pear...

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson star in Aaron Schimberg's satire on appearance and attraction. Read the Empire review.

Sebastian Stan is completely unrecognizable in the A24's bizarre film 'A Different Man,' about a man with facial deformities who undergoes a strange medical ...

This jagged, grimly funny psychodrama examines questions of identity

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Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was also part of this year’s Berlin Film Festival program. The film st...

Renate Reinsve ('The Worst Person in the World') and Adam Pearson ('Under the Skin') co-star in writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s twisted New York-set fable.

Adam Pearson & Renate Reinsve also star in this unforgettable movie about an actor who undergoes a radical transformation only to get cast as himself.

Sebastian Stan plays a man with a disfiguring condition alongside Adam Pearson, who actually has that same condition

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig, Tim Cogshell and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand plat...

Sebastian Stan plays a facially deformed actor who emerges from a miracle cure to realize he's lost something deeper, in a movie co-starring Renate Reinsve.

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are an excellent double act in Aaron Schimberg's effective sophomore feature.

In films starring Sebastian Stan and Demi Moore, the directors Aaron Schimberg and Coralie Fargeat satirize the self-annihilating pursuit of beauty.

'A Different Man' mixes a touch of body horror alongside questions of identity and beauty to create one of the most original films of the year

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson star in a marvelously inventive dark comedy about a man who can’t change his insides.

A Different Man has the color and texture of a ‘70s New York indie, and the sly, absurdist humor of Woody Allen films from that era.

An artist, the old saying goes, is “someone who pounds the same nail, over and over again.” So it’s not a shock that “Chained for Life” writer-dire...

Sebastian Stan discovers that beauty is skin deep in this 'moody modern fairytale'

Sebastian Stan gives his best performance yet in A Different Man, director Aaron Schimberg's hilarious dark comedy about facial differences.

Sebastian Stan stars as an actor who undergoes a radical procedure to remove his facial tumours – with unexpected results.

Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man is ‘a darkly comic psychological thriller’ that plays like an inverted Beauty and the Beast. What happens when the ha...

“A Different Man” is a kaleidoscopic funhouse with style to burn. It also is the best movie at this year’s Sundance Film Festival—and the best perfor...

There are a lot of ways A Different Man could go and a lot of things it could be. Aaron Schimberg’s uniquely uncomfortable, uncomfortably unique feature so...

Sebastian Stan is a ball of nervous energy in his dual performance as a disfigured man who undergoes a radical transformation.

Sebastian Stan gives a strong, committed performance but Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” doesn't amount to much.

The actor plays a dejected outsider with facial neurofibromatosis in Aaron Schimberg’s original and daring film

Sundance 2024: Aaron Schimberg's latest is an intriguing blend of drama, dark comedy and body horror in "A Different Man"

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are excellent in a drama that works too hard to get its ideas across.

A transformed Sebastian Stan gives a career-best turn and Adam Pearson is a revelation in "A Different Man," a movie about empathy and self-awareness.

With boundary-defying performances from Stan and Adam Pearson, Aaron Schimberg’s dizzying think-piece raises bold questions about representation.

Sebastian Stan is very good in this droll, distant drama about being unable to escape yourself, but it’s Adam Pearson who brings the film to life.