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 […]
Review: Liam Neeson’s Latest, Memory, Is Flat and Forgettable
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 […]
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 […]
Review: As Predictable as It Is Exciting, Liam Neeson’s Latest, The Ice Road, Gets Points for Authenticity
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. […]
Review: The Busiest Man in Action Movies, Liam Neeson Returns in Serviceable Border Story 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 […]
Review: An Actioner with Heart, Honest Thief Should’ve Just Let Neeson Do Neeson
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 […]
Review: The Family Drama of Made in Italy Gets Lost in Its Scenic Setting
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 […]
Review: Driven by Strong Performances, Ordinary Love Finds the Extraordinary in the Everyday
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 […]
Review: Part Reboot, Part Sequel, Men In Black: International Doesn’t Add Anything to the Franchise
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 […]
Review: The Coen Brothers Go Western for a Meditation on Mortality in The 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, […]
Review: Steve McQueen’s Chicago-set Widows Is a Complex, Layered Ensemble Work
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 […]
Film Review: As Liam Neeson’s January Action Flicks Go, We’ve Seen Worse Than The Commuter
As the seasoned moviegoers that I’m sure most of you are, you don’t need me telling you that the month of January has long been considered a dumping ground for […]