Cillian Murphy smiles just the once in the course of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man but it’s off-camera, so does that count? The rest of his performance is divided into two modes: haunted and glowering. The haunting comes in the first half of this cinematic outing for the series, which, along with the films of Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughan, sought to turn working-class British grit into a globally exportable brand where a knuckle sandwich represents the ultimate in upward mobility. Call it the geezerfication of British cinema. Set during the Second World War, the film shows the Luftwaffe in...
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