Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Miles Teller are on prime kind in Paper Tiger, one other gritty, New York-based crime drama from James Grey (Little Odessa, The Yards, We Personal the Evening). Echoing occasions from the writer-director’s personal childhood, it is set within the borough of Queens in 1986. Johansson and Teller play Hester and Irwin, a fortunately married, successful-enough couple with two sons. Driver performs Irwin’s brother Gary, a flashy ex-cop with political connections and charisma to burn. He brings his brother in on a scheme to scrub up a polluted canal for a gaggle of Russian immigrants. What with Irwin’s engineering know-how and his personal street-smart confidence, Gary causes, the deal cannot go fallacious. However, in fact, it could go very fallacious certainly, what with the Russians being ruthless gangsters. “As along with his best work, Grey strikes an attractive stability between fraught interpersonal drama and nail-biting thrills,” says Nick Schager in The Every day Beast. “Paper Tiger pulsates with coronary heart, rancour, and terror.”
