The Christophers

The estranged children (Corden, Gunning) of a beloved dormant artist (McKellen) hire Lori (Coel), an art restorer and former forger, to pose as a prospective assistant in an effort to access some unfinished canvases they believe to be instrumental to conjuring a worthwhile inheritance. As always, Steven Soderbergh is a master of embedding the formal and technical flourishes of the arthouse inside seemingly populist fare, as exemplified in his Ocean’s trilogy and last year’s Black Bag (2025). In turns that Deadline deemed an "unusually emotional film for Soderbergh,” McKellen’s and Coel’s tête-à-tête makes for a quintessentially funny and engrossing addition to the director’s oeuvre.