You have to watch hard to get to truth in The Good Liar (2019, rated R, 109 minutes). 
There are several layers of lies, and Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) and Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) don’t waste a lot of time helping you to dig.
There is no beauty in The Good Liar. There is a dreadful wartime reality. There is revenge, regret, rebuke, reckoning, refusal, and retaliation. Most of the smiles are insincere.
Roy learns that, at last, he cannot escape retribution for his sins of youth.
Betty learns that, at last, her lifetime quest for revenge is a good thing.
Be prepared to chug through a couple distracting subplots.
The Good Liar is a story of good and evil, and all the ways of living that they create.
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