In films like Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines , his TV miniseries I Know This Much Is True and his screenplay work on Sound of Metal , Derek Cianfrance has shown an affinity for moody material, often exploring working-class lives, bruised masculinity and the imperfections of love. The director’s first feature in nine years, Roofman , goes an unexpected route, again touching on those themes but with a delicate tone that makes room for lightness, comedy, romance and quietly searing melancholy.

A true-crime story that’s also a tender character study, the film hands Channing Tatum his most soulful role since Foxcatcher and makes the actor’s not exactly intuitive pairing with Kirsten Dunst a thing of beauty. This is the kind of disarming crowd-pleaser fo

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