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

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Source: New York Post
Published: 2026-05-19 04:45 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Crime & Justice, Culture & Entertainment, Crime & Justice
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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 brothers in 1980s Queens getting in well over their heads with the Russian “mafiya.”
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