‘Wounds’ puts Armie Hammer through the wringer

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There’s always been something about Armie Hammer that just seems so easy. He’s a straight white guy who looks like he was created in a lab devoted to perfecting the straight white guy, with the cheekbones of an Avenger, the shoulders of an Abercrombie model, and the confident charm of a fairy-tale prince. 

The best of his onscreen roles have taken advantage of those qualities, turning him into a teenage daydream or a capitalist nightmare. In Wounds, they’re weaponized against him, as his character is forced to reckon with the fact that under his superficially appealing exterior, there’s no there there at all.  Read more…

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