Cast of the gray man

2022 - 7 - 22

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The Gray Man to Promising Young Woman: the seven best films to ... (The Guardian)

Ryan Gosling is an assassin on the run, while Carey Mulligan plans revenge on the men who prey on LA's drunk women.

German director Wim Wenders brought his fascination with the US, and US cinema, to this stylish 1977 version of Patricia Highsmith’s noir novel Ripley’s Game – though with a European arthouse mood. Jane Austen’s well-meaning but blithely domineering heroine seems as much of a rite of passage for actors as Hamlet. Anya Taylor-Joy is the latest to try her hand in Autumn de Wilde’s pretty-as-a-picture adaptation. It’s a dark film with sharp satirical edges, but also a flicker of light in the shape of Bo Burnham’s love interest Ryan. Saturday 23 July, 3.50am, Sky Cinema Greats Following the Russos from Endgame to spy game is Chris Evans, sporting a most ridiculous tache as Six’s gleeful nemesis Lloyd. The film may ape the Bond films in casting (Ana de Armas from No Time to Die co-stars) and travel brochure set-pieces, but there’s currently a gap in the market for roguish spies – and the film does leave the possibility of a sequel open. Elena’s frustrated desire to be a mother and worries about the couple’s age gap engulf her and alienate Jake. It’s a messily human drama, superbly performed in what is essentially a two-hander, while the handheld, close-up camerawork gives events a restless energy. Titanic duo Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunited for the first time in Sam Mendes’s 2008 film, but this knotty drama couldn’t be further from the swooning romance of Jack and Rose. Based on Richard Yates’s 1961 novel and set in 50s America, it follows young married couple Frank and April as they struggle to negotiate the “hopeless emptiness” of suburban, middle-class life.

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