'The Walk' review: A high-wire act with stomach-flipping you-are-there-ness

An infectious, buoyant brio infuses "The Walk," a sprightly, occasionally overeager pop-up book of a movie that features Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the legendary French high-wire walker Philippe Petit. Tearing into his ersatz accent with gusto and joie de vivre that can be as grating as it is ingratiating, Gordon-Levitt portrays Petit at the very moment he is transformed from obscure Paris busker into pop-culture sensation, by stringing a steel cable between the twin towers of the World Trade Cente...