‘The Hoax’ has it

Richard Gere has still got it.

The one-time American Gigolo proves that he’s matured into a still-relevant leading man, harnessing his legendary screen charisma to make a rascal sympathetic in a fact-based account of fraud and chutzpah, “The Hoax.” Gere plays huckster Clifford Irving, who infamously duped the publishing world and the larger culture in the early ’70s by faking an “authorized” biography of the then still-living Howard Hughes.