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Channing Tatum in Roofman.

Channing Tatum in Roofman, based on a true story about a down-on-his-luck war veteran who carried out a series of unusually polite McDonald’s robberies in the early 2000s.

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Kyle Buchanan

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NEW YORK – When it comes to great acting, some people like to measure the distance between the performer and the role: the more significant the transformation, the more successful the performance.

I will not argue that point, though a better metric to measure might be the distance between the actor and the audience.

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