Paper Tiger – Gray's sixth film to premiere In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival – comes equipped with an A-list cast comprised of Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller, and takes us to 1986 New York as we explore a close-knit family's descent towards crisis after they acquire some dodgy new business partners.
On the other hand, Driver – in his most charismatic and magnetic performance in years – is Gary, the livelier and more brash of the two siblings who is idolised by Irwin's sons and well connected around New York (owing at least in part to a past in the NYPD.)
It doesn't take a genius to work out that this may not go according to plan or, for that matter, that the resulting fallout will drive a wedge between the two brothers. Of course, that's precisely what happens, and – thanks to a shockingly naive blunder on Irwin's part – his whole family wind up getting caught firmly in the crosshairs too.
But for all that the film gets right, there's also a feeling that it's held back by a few narrative and tonal shortcomings. At some points its presentation of the American dream gone wrong is underbaked and perhaps even a little clichéd, while at others it lurches towards overblown melodrama, with Johansson guilty of some pretty hammy outbursts. In other words, Gray seems to be aiming for both operatic and intimate at once, and the film ends up not quite soaring in either of those modes.
Still, Teller and Driver really are terrific – the latter especially great when we discover both the extent of his force and the limits of his bravado. And so even with those aforementioned flaws, there's plenty here to savour, and more than enough for Gray's relatively small but extremely devoted band of die-hards to celebrate.
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