Paul Giamati deserves an Oscar for this!

Rating: 8/10 (6 July 2015)

I won't add much to the reviews of others, but there is one thing that should be said -- while the performances of both John Cusack and Paul Dano as Brian Wilson are excellent, the performance of Paul Giamati as Eugene Landy is stellar. Instead of playing Landy as some kind of one-dimensional black-hatted "bad guy", he moves progressively from portraying a therapist who has some radical -- but perhaps effective -- "tough love" ideas about treatment, to someone more sinister, and finally to someone who might just be in need of some treatment himself for the very paranoid schizophrenia he claims to be treating in his patient.
A clear candidate for an Oscar as best supporting actor.