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Guy Ritchie returns to his headily British directorial roots in "The Gentlemen," a modern mobster tale of mystery, murder, and the lovely Mary Jane. Helmed by a star-studded cast of cretinous characters (including Matthew McConaughey, Henry Golding, and Hugh Grant) that only a Guy Ritchie picture could offer, the film's two-hour running time makes an unreliable narrator feel that much more unreliable, but at a pace that's upbeat enough to bring even the most scatterbrained audiences along for the ride. Also, Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Price impress the Academy in "The Two Popes," a new Netflix film from director Fernando Meirelles about the Catholic Church's largest transition of power in it's 2,000 year history. After his brief tenure as the head of the church, Pope Benedict XVI invites his most divisive rival, Cardinal Bergoglio, to The Vatican to dine, debate, and ultimately decide the future of the Catholic Church amidst a tidal wave of modernity that's simply too big to ignore. Finally, Paramount Pictures is making more Transformers movies, Universal is rebooting John Carpenter's "The Thing," and why are people watching movies about China's Coronavirus epidemic?