<em>The Gentlemen </em>Is a Throwback, and Not in a Good Way

When he emerged as a filmmaker in the late 1990s, Guy Ritchie fashioned himself as a kind of British Quentin Tarantino. His early movies (and ) were set in criminal underworlds, crackled with witty and shockingly profane dialogue, and gleefully chopped up their timelines. Ritchie has occasionally sojourned back to that territory (in 2008’s , for instance). But of late he’s been languishing in franchise-land, sneaking Cockney accents and bare-knuckle boxing into,