The Gentlemen may be boiling over with profanity and squib-splattering violence, but with a great cast and a relaxed atmosphere, this is just the kind of fun we need right now.
While it can’t hit and hold the same high notes as its classic predecessors, fans of the genre will find that Onward is still better than just about anything out there.
Ultimately, Richard Jewell plays like an immense tragedy, the garbage-strewn mess left after a media circus moves its dog-and-pony show somewhere else.