{"id":51104,"date":"2026-11-12T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/paper-tiger-review\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T18:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:34","slug":"paper-tiger-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/paper-tiger-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Tiger Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\"><a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/paper-tiger\"><em>Paper Tiger<\/em><\/a><em> opens in theaters November 13.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">With Paper Tiger, director James Gray returns to a milieu familiar from his first three movies \u2013 Little Odessa, The Yards, and <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/12\/we-own-the-night-review\">We Own the Night<\/a> \u2013 and delivers one of his strongest films in years.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">At the heart of this slow burn crime drama \u2013 set in Queens, New York in 1986 \u2013 are two brothers, family man Irwin Pearl (Miles Teller) and his older brother Gary (Adam Driver), a swaggering former cop who comes to his younger sibling with a business proposition. Utilizing his ties to City Hall, Gary wants to launch a consulting firm offering their services to recently arrived Russian immigrants who have started a clean-up firm for the polluted Gowanus Canal. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">Gary, the wheeler-dealer, would get the Russians hooked up with his connections while straight-shooter Irwin, an engineer, would advise them on how to keep the operation up to code. With Gary being bled dry in a divorce and Irwin considering his eldest son\u2019s looming college tuition, this business venture seems like a win-win for both brothers. Unfortunately, these Russians are actually a mob front.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/paper-tiger-review\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper Tiger opens in theaters November 13. With Paper Tiger, director James Gray returns to a milieu familiar from his first three movies \u2013 Little Odessa, The Yards, and We Own the Night \u2013 and delivers one of his strongest films in years. At the heart of this slow burn crime drama \u2013 set in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-51104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}