Earlier in 2025 director Darren Aronofsky released the action thriller Caught Stealing , a film that — while successful — was at odds with the rest of his filmography. Writer/director Derek Cianfrance has made a similar whiplash pivot with his new film, Roofman , an effort that has little in common with his most well-known works, each of which were intense dramas with tragic elements.

This film tells the real-life story of Jeffrey Manchester (Channing Tatum), who earns the nickname of “Roofman” after breaking into a series of fast food restaurants via their roofs in order to rob them. Those crimes send him to jail for a long sentence, but he soon breaks out using a simple-yet-ingenious method. Now on the run in Charlotte, North Carolina, he comes up with another smart way to

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