Anyone who has seen the 1999 film “The Talented Mr Ripley” will be “astonished” at how a new Netflix adaption “transforms the same story into something completely different”, said movie critic Caryn James.
The big-screen take on Patricia Highsmith’s novel secured a string of awards, but the streaming giant’s new eight-part series is “just as masterful”, James wrote for the BBC. Andrew Scott takes over from Matt Damon in the titular role of Tom Ripley, a con artist sent from 1950s New York City to Italy to convince playboy Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to come home.
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