Roofman has heart and humour, The Woman In Cabin 10 sinks as a whodunnit

In the late 1990s, a United States army veteran (Channing Tatum) convicted for robbing 45 McDonald's outlets escapes from prison, holes up in a Toys“R”Us store in small-town North Carolina and falls for an employee.

- Whang Yee Ling

Jeffrey Manchester’s cross-country spree, breaking into fast-food locations through their roofs, has the makings of a movie. But Roofman by American indie writer-director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, 2010; The Place Beyond The Pines, 2012) with Tatum in the title role is a true-crime dramedy stranger than fiction because of what happens after.