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April 10, 2026

At The Movies: Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are razor-sharp in art comedy ‘The Christophers'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

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Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel lead Steven Soderbergh's new movie “The Christophers,” about a famed artist and the unfinished paintings his estranged kids want to inherit.

“The Christophers” looks like an art heist movie at first. A couple of wannabe heirs (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) hire a restoration specialist (Michaela Coel) to finish a series of paintings by their famous father (Ian McKellen), who wants nothing to do with them or the uncompleted works that would surely command an astronomical price tag.


 
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