Roofman

Directed by Derek Cianfrance (R)

★★★

“This is a rom-com with a big but,” said in The Wrap . In Roofman , Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst play 40-something single parents who fall in love. But...Tatum’s character is based on a real-life military veteran who robbed 45 McDonald’s restaurants and met Dunst’s salesclerk while he was living inside a Toys R Us after escaping prison. Because he appears doomed to soon end up back behind bars, Roofman comes across as “the saddest romantic comedy ever, or maybe the most lighthearted tragedy,” with the charming Tatum somehow making Jeffrey Manchester, his model, appear merely a little misguided.

In a “more textured” movie, Manchester would have been less purely likable, said in The Guardian . But Roofman , so named because M

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