Tag: Thriller
REVIEW: Reacher – Season 2, Episode 4, “A Night at the Symphony”
AlexGherzo | Dec 22, 2023 | 0
“A Night at the Symphony” is a legwork episode, with Reacher and his team connecting the dots and slowly forming the picture of the conspiracy that killed their friends. But it stops from feeling dull or slow with a propulsive pace and plenty of character work, adding layers to Reacher without b...
Read MoreREVIEW: Reacher – Season 2, Episode 3, “Picture Says a Thousand Words”
AlexGherzo | Dec 17, 2023 | 0
Reacher’s second season took a bit of a detour with “What Happens in Atlantic City,” but “Picture Says a Thousand Words” revs the show into overdrive. The already quick pace picks up even more speed as Reacher and his team focus their investigation, the connections between the villains ap...
Read MoreREVIEW: Reacher – Season 2, Episode 2, “What Happens in Atlantic City”
AlexGherzo | Dec 16, 2023 | 0
“What Happens in Atlantic City” is a busywork episode, bringing Reacher and his team to a new location to chase a lead in their investigation while little of the story develops. These can feel like video game sidequests if handled poorly; fortunately, Reacher roots this episode in character, an...
Read MoreREVIEW: Reacher – Season 2, Episode 1, “ATM”
AlexGherzo | Dec 15, 2023 | 2
As Christmas approaches and 2023 winds down, Amazon gave us a stocking stuffer to end a mostly disappointing entertainment year on a high note: season 2 of Reacher, or at least the beginning of it. Based on Lee Child’s series of mystery novels, Reacher follows the exploits of Jack Reacher, a form...
Read MoreREVIEW: Silent Night (2023)
AlexGherzo | Dec 4, 2023 | 0
Silent Night, the newest entry in the Christmas action subgenre, is director John Woo’s first American film since 2003’s Paycheck, and I can understand his disillusionment after that one. Fortunately, Silent Night is a lot better than that, and while it’s not a classic or as good as some of W...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Killer (2023)
AlexGherzo | Nov 16, 2023 | 2
The Killer is what thrillers aspire to be, a suspenseful story about a professional death dealer and his world that sheds light on our own mundane lives. We’re made to feel a kinship with an assassin while learning very little about his personality, both comforted and unsettled by the notion that...
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