Cannes Film Festival 2026: James Gray’s Masterful ‘Paper Tiger’ Refashions the Mob Flick For the Modern Age

James Gray’s mob drama Paper Tiger is work of classical Hollywood staging that does something genuinely novel with the genre. The director’s sixth Palme d’Or hopeful — a record for an American filmmaker — strips away the allure of the modern crime flick and replaces it with a tactile sense of danger, in his story of…

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