‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 Takes Its Gangster Ambitions Too Seriously

Gangster cinema often signals a mob boss’s maturation through negotiating prowess. In Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Part II,” a newly confident Michael Corleone responds to a crooked Nevada senator trying to squeeze him with an offer of precisely nothing: “not even the fee for the gaming license,” which he expects the politician to pay ...