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Posted on February 22, 2020

The Gentlemen (2019)

The title must be taken with a pound of salt in Guy Ritchie’s new action comedy, stuffed with killers and drug dealers and a blackmailer. It also requires us to root for a bad guy who has earned his millions through his network of marijuana farms—though we are supposed to see a redeeming factor when …

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