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Amor Towles’ best-selling novel is now a sprawling series. Too sprawling, in fact. Despite being a slog, McGregor’s lively performance and a bittersweet finale nearly save things.
Ben Blackall/Paramount+ with SHOWTIMEEchoing the stylish blandness of its modern-art credit sequence, A Gentleman in Moscow is a handsomely inert adaptation of Amor Towles’ 2016 best-selling novel about an early 20th-century aristocrat who, in a homeland reshaped by the Russian Revolution, is given a lifetime house-arrest sentence in a lavish capitol hotel. A stinging critique of the Bolshevik uprising that swept the nation, Ben Vanstone’s Showtime series (premiere March 29 online and March 31 o