‘Paper Tiger’ Review: Miles Teller and Adam Driver Get Ensnared by the Russian Mob in a James Gray Film With More Atmosphere Than Plausibility

You can feel James Gray wanting to will something like a Lumet version of Greek tragedy into the tale of these brothers, and of Irwin’s blind loyalty to Gary’s huckster-psycho moves. But even the scene-to-scene skill of Gray’s direction can’t stop the movie from turning into a mixture of the grandiose and the implausible.

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