Watch a clip from the movie "The Art of Self-Defense," written and directed by Riley Stearns. Photo: Bleecker Street The tapping starts one night when he gets mugged, just like that—or so it ...

“I’m afraid of other men. I want to be what intimidates me,” Jesse Eisenberg’s character says to his new karate sensei in The Art Of Self-Defense, a handy encapsulation of the film’s plo ...

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“It might be a paper-clip holder,” said Mr. Spitzer, who obtained a concealed weapons permit for self-defense. “But it’s gonna be something.” In a similar vein, elementary and middle ...

He was filming The Art of Self-Defense when prominent actresses began speaking out about workplace harassment and sexual violence. Eisenberg knew both survivors and perpetrators — and he ...

“The Art of Self-Defense,” a black comedy about a milquetoast accountant (Jesse Eisenberg) who, after a mugging, signs up for karate lessons from a charismatic, hyper-macho nut job (Alessandro ...

It’s apparent from the get-go that The Art of Self-Defense isn’t trying to put a spotlight on the real world as we see it. Writer-director Riley Stearns, for his second feature, channels the ...

Jesse Eisenberg plays a wimp whose desperate bid to man up compels him to join an off-kilter karate studio in this smart, machismo-critiquing cult comedy. Dark, sinister, and disarmingly hilarious ...