Review: A model of restraint, 'A Gentleman in Moscow' is unlike anything else on television
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Mar 27, 2024
3 minutes
Premiering Friday on the confusingly named Paramount+ with Showtime, "A Gentleman in Moscow" is quite unlike anything else on television. Created by Ben Vanstone ("All Creatures Great and Small") and largely directed by Sam Miller ("I May Destroy You") from the 2016 novel by Amor Towles, there's nothing overtly radical about the production or plot, and elements of the story might remind viewers of Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" or Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers" or Kay Thompson's "Eloise" books. But in its tone
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