huggermugger

The banality of it all — the huggermugger of Nixon’s conversations with his two top aides, H.R.

Subsequent political huggermugger led to the exile of Athenian generals Xanthippus and Aristides, but the two were called back as the Persians mounted a second, retributive invasion almost a decade later.

Here, espionage mingles discreetly with classic British country-house huggermugger.

Driver, a wondrously subtle and startlingly emphatic actor, is too often reduced to yelling and waving his arms, and the more delicate notes of longing, nostalgia and wonder that should drive the story are drowned out by clatter and huggermugger.

Keaton — experiencing something of a career renaissance with memorable performances in “Birdman,” “Spotlight” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming” — is convincing in the tough-guy role, but there’s a gleam of amusement behind his character’s steely glare that hints he knows all this huggermugger is faintly ridiculous.