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Review: Liam Neeson Digs Deep as a Flawed, Aging Criminal Confronting Memory Loss in Absolution

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  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 1, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Liam Neeson’s Latest Actioner, Retribution, Is Ultimately Stifled by Its Setting, Casting

    I’m in no position to get all ageist on any actor, but casting 71-year-old (okay, maybe he was 70 when he actually filmed this movie) Liam Neeson as the father […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 25, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review

    Review: Liam Neeson’s Latest, Memory, Is Flat and Forgettable

    Liam Neeson in MEMORY

    Well, it’s a new month, so it’s time for a new Liam Neeson movie. And you guessed it: he plays a guy with a certain set of skills that involve […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 28, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Liam Neeson’s Latest, Blacklight Takes Too Many Shortcuts, Short-Changing Audiences

    If the people who made the new political thriller Blacklight had any guts, the story would have been told from the perspective of journalist Mira Jones (Emmy Raver-Lampman, The Umbrella […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 10, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: As Predictable as It Is Exciting, Liam Neeson’s Latest, The Ice Road, Gets Points for Authenticity

    The Ice Road

    Well, it’s been about a month or so, so it must be time for a new Liam Neeson movie to pop up on a streaming service, as God intended it. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 25, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Review: The Busiest Man in Action Movies, Liam Neeson Returns in Serviceable Border Story The Marksman

    The Marksman

    Few actors have had as many of their films come out during the last year or so as Liam Neeson. I’m guessing if there hadn’t been a pandemic, films like […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 15, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: An Actioner with Heart, Honest Thief Should’ve Just Let Neeson Do Neeson

    Honest Thief

    The primary purpose of Honest Thief, the latest directing effort from Mark Williams (A Family Man, and a co-creator of Netflix’s “Ozark”), seems to be to make everyone fall in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 15, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Family Drama of Made in Italy Gets Lost in Its Scenic Setting

    Made in Italy

    Admittedly, the prospect of watching a film starring Liam Neeson and his real-life son, Michael Richardson (whose mother, Natasha Richardson, died in 2009) as an estranged father and grown son […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 8, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Driven by Strong Performances, Ordinary Love Finds the Extraordinary in the Everyday

    Ordinary Love

    Long before Liam Neeson became one of the go-to guys for action-oriented films (Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Batman Begins, and of course the Taken films), he was considered one […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 21, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Part Reboot, Part Sequel, Men In Black: International Doesn’t Add Anything to the Franchise

    Men in Black International

    The Men In Black movies don’t make up a particularly good franchise. The first film from 1997 was a terrific original idea about the hide-in-plain-sight tactics of a secret organization […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 14, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Coen Brothers Go Western for a Meditation on Mortality in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    The only thing more satisfying than Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, True Grit) making a new Western film is them making six. More to the point, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 16, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Steve McQueen’s Chicago-set Widows Is a Complex, Layered Ensemble Work

    Widows

    Widows is about a great many things, only one of which is a group of women, all of whom have lost their husbands during the commission of a joint robbery […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 16, 2018
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