“The Drop,” May 21, 2015 (2014), airplane on way to New Zealand. Tom Hardy plays Bob Saginowski, a bartender and small-time criminal working for his cousin Marv (James Gandolfini, wonderful to the end and greatly missed) in the latter’s bar in Brooklyn. Looking for a big score, Marv struggles against his own decline as a criminal facing the arrival of new, utterly brutal Chechen gangsters. Bob, on the other hand, works to get by, to stay in touch with a better world despite his experiences, and to connect with others despite himself. He’s quiet, and one wonders if he’s all there, but that’s part of the play here. He meets and connects with Nadia, herself a deeply damaged young woman. I really enjoyed this excellent, atmospheric look at marginal criminality and human complexity from a novella and screenplay by one of my favorite writers, Dennis Lehane Matthias Shoenarts is excellent as the frighteningly brutal thug who terrorizes both Bob and Nadia. See this small and, I think, unjustly overlooked film.