The Lesson (R, 103 mins). Streaming on Netflix. Directed by Alice Troughton.
Reviewed by Jen Shieff. In this well-paced British thriller, the fictional famous writer J.M.
Sinclair (Richard E. Grant) thinly disguises his tyrannical tendencies with a studied smile designed to let him dominate any situation. His main target is his own privileged family, who have a closely guarded, very sad secret.
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