'Red Rocket' is a bait and switch, but in a brilliant way

Who would have thought 2021 would see Simon Rex compared to the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Smith, and Andrew Garfield? Yet as award season heats up, the MTV VJ turned leading man has critics drop-jawed over his Red Rocket. 

The dark comedy from Sean Baker follows a swaggering over-the-hill porn star on a humbling...