The actor gives a strong performance as a desperate social climber in this fractured drama that works best as a flawed character studyQuietly and usually without much of an audience,Richard Gere is having a bit of a moment. Unlike his similarly aged peers Liam Neeson and Bruce Willis, he’s rejected the senior stuntman route and instead made the decision to embrace his older self, and taking on roles that are reliant on his age,often uncomfortably so. In Time Out of intellect, he played a homeless man struggling to reconnect with his estranged daughter, and in The Benefactor he was an unhinged philanthropist making amends for his tortured past and,well, he even joined the cast of The moment Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Related: Wakefield review: two hours with Bryan Cranston in an attic is less fun than it sounds Continue reading...
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