Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. In Stillwater, a father’s tense ...

On the eve of its release, Matt Damon’s new movie “Stillwater” (in theaters July 30) received an unexpected review. Amanda Knox, whose time spent in an Italian prison on murder charges ...

Matt Damon’s new movie, Stillwater, opens by building up to a gentle but pointed bit of misdirection, the subtle sort of deviation from our expectations meant to say as much about the audience ...

The film was written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom McCarthy, who also directed the movie. The story of Stillwater is partly based on the story of Amanda Knox. Knox was convicted for the murder ...

Of course, no matter how beguilingly entertaining it is to watch “Stillwater” drift away from the movie you thought it would be, you know that it’s only a matter of time before the devil ...

Don’t do that! (Before we get any further, this was not about Stillwater, a movie I did like.) The point I was trying to make to Tom McCarthy is that I appreciate him as a director because his ...