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Rated Roofman 6/10

This review may contain spoilers. What this crime caper was really missing for me was an early montage of Jeffrey really enjoying his late nights at the toy store. They have many of those scenes, but it's all presented as muted whimsy rather than tapping into the consumer thrill of being the only person with unfettered access to a big box environment. It would have been a sugar rush that foretold the crash. Instead, Roofman is something of a foregone conclusion. Jeffrey, the character the screenplay asks you to be sympathetic for, had his fate sealed when he left the military. Or perhaps, when he was born. Too clever, too honest, too poor, too ambitious, too insecure. They made a Greek tragic figure out of this man. Maybe there is truth of a noble criminal cornered into an absurd situation. But it sure seems like I'm being sold a narrative about a person who, within the movie itself, recklessly embeds himself in a family with the near certainty that he's going to break their hearts. And his own daughter (the movie kind of forgets about his twins) is discarded as a plot point once he shifts his focus to Kristen Dunst's family. Why did he give that girl Four Swords? Did she already have Wind Waker?

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Published 2026-04-03 00:00 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere