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The Outfit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Any film with Mark Rylance in the lead will be a hit with me. This film, directed by Graham Moore, who wrote with script with Johnathan McClain, doesn\u2019t disappoint (trailer<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonard (Rylance) insists on being called a cutter\u2014the man who cuts the fabric for bespoke men\u2019s suits\u2014not a tailor, and trained on London\u2019s Savile Row. But it\u2019s the early 1950s and now he\u2019s in Chicago, where most of his clients are involved in organized crime. Mable (Zoey Deutch) is his assistant, and most of the time the two of them are alone in his shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A succession of shady characters use a dropbox in Leonard\u2019s workroom to stash payments and other messages, but he stays out of their business. As he says Mable, \u201cIf we only allowed angels to be customers, soon we\u2019d have no customers at all.\u201d When she starts dating the not-too-bright son of a mob boss in the midst of a deadly gang war, trouble invades the cutter\u2019s quiet workroom, and Mable and Leonard may not escape. Clever and entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 rating: 85%; audiences: 92%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rose Maker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This French comedy-drama, directed by Pierre Pinaud and written by him with Fadette Drouard and Philippe Le Guay, originated in 2020, but is now appearing in US theaters, with subtitles (trailer<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eve (Catherine Frot) inherited a rose-growing business from her father and breeds beautiful new varieties. Despite her success, bankruptcy is imminent. She and her assistant Vera (Olivia Cote) need help, and where does Vera find people they can afford? Three people on work-release program from a local prison. They have no horticultural experience, but at least they come cheap. It\u2019s a classic \u201cagainst all odds\u201d plot, but satisfying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 rating: 94%; audiences: 92%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mothering Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A super cast (Colin Firth, Olivia Coleman, Josh O\u2019Connor) in a slight film (trailer<\/a>) set in 1924, about three upper-class British families, two of whom lost sons in World War I. Firth\u2019s character has retreated into bland platitudes, while Coleman, as his wife, is seething with unquenchable rage. The only son left to any of them (O\u2019Connor) has a brief liaison with a maid (Odessa Young), and much of the story is from her perspective then and later, after she becomes a successful writer. It\u2019s dripping with sadness, but the constant use of jump cuts in time and scene seem designed to mask the thinness of the story as translated to film. Directed by Eva Husson and written by Alice Birch, based on a novel by Graham Swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> critics\u2019 rating: 77%; audiences: 60%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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