Robin Williams’ Final Dramatic Performance Walks Well-Worn Ground

Director Dito Montiel‘s agreeable later-life coming-out drama “Boulevard” already labors under a burden of true tragedy: It’s the last dramatic role the late Robin Williams filmed before his August 2014 suicide, the knowledge of which colors and shapes a viewer’s reaction to the film. Williams stars as Nolan, a 60-year-old man with a perfectly normal life: 25 years working at the bank, marriage to his wife Joy (Kathy Baker) and a circle of good friends. Yet this isn’t the life Nolan wants, and one night he drives down to the part of town where young men and women lean against the cars that stop in their neighborhood to negotiate companionship. After some...