RIPLEY Writer Steven Zaillian’s new take on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley” has a Hitchcockian mood and tension as it tracks a con artist’s rise up from squalor. Andrew Scott gives an expertly enigmatic performance as the desolate, two-bit sociopath Tom Ripley, a man who hit an existential bottom early in life and has never shaken it. He wears a mask of normalcy, but he’s seething with contempt and greed underneath. Scott’s costar is the black-and-white cinematography, which is stark and bleak and brutalist and gorgeous. (Netflix) Turns out there was no reason to worry that last year’s Hollywood...
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