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'The Good Liar,' The Con Is A Pro — As Expected

In Bill Condon's film set among London's septuagenarian set, Ian McKellan attempts to con Helen Mirren out of her fortune, but we're always one step ahead of the story.
In Bill Condon's <em>The Good Liar</em>, Roy (Ian McKellan) targets widow (Helen Mirren) and her extensive fortune.

When a movie is called The Good Liar, you expect a certain amount of deception. So how many con jobs would you say, on average, you'd want out of a nearly two-hour con film to feel like you'd gotten your money's worth of swindles? Is it more than one or two? If so, bad news.

That's not to say the pulpy new retiree thriller, headlined

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