film review

Channing Tatum stars as Jeffrey Manchester, an escaped convict hiding out at a North Carolina Toys “R” Us, in new movie Roofman.

Roofman

Directed by Derek Cianfrance

Written by Derek Cianfrance and Kirt Gunn

Starring Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst and Ben Mendelsohn

Classification 14A; 126 minutes

Opens in theatres Oct. 10

Derek Cianfrance can be a gimmicky and oppressively serious filmmaker. Think Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines , screechy and miserabilist portraits of working-class families that confuse severity with authenticity while leaning on their time-hopping structures for profundity.

I can’t help but think someone told Cianfrance to lighten up a little, because his latest, Roofman , a movie that has Channing Tatum dancing in his br

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