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Film reviews: New releases for Feb. 20
Pillion; How to Make a Killing; This Is Not a Test
How to Make a Killing ** The classic comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets clearly isn’t the only way to adapt the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal —the Broadway musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder also managed it—but I can’t grasp the reasoning behind adapting it this way.
Writer/director John Patton Ford ( Emily the Criminal ) keeps the basic premise, following a man named Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell), son of the disinherited daughter of a wealthy family, who recounts from a jail cell his plot to murder all the relatives ahead of him in the line of succession to the…
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