Guy Ritchie's latest is a throwback to his rough-and-tumble, intricately plotted capers
Guy Ritchie’s “The Gentlemen” expands the concept of a selfie—mostly to the good, as far as it goes. It’s a movie in which pleasingly self-enchanted actors play comically self-important characters pursuing elaborately self-serving schemes. Yet the story’s appeal is self-limiting, since the substance matters less than the self-referential style, the reference being to Mr. Ritchie’s early films in exactly the same vein.
That means he’s back in the milieu of his electrifying 1998 debut feature “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,”...
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