Films starring Liam Neeson
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Widows (R)
You’ll have to forgive me. It’s been nearly three weeks since I initially saw Widows. Immediately after the screening, I felt very positively about the film, which I thought leveraged some really great technical filmmaking and a game cast to offset a messy script with too many threads and a pretty weak late-game twist. But in […]
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (R)
The films of the Coen brothers are replete with dark ironies, but few rival the fact that the staunchest moralists working in Hollywood today have been so consistently labeled as cynics or dismissed as nihilists. Their impeccable new effort, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is the latest in a streak of masterpieces now over a […]
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Non-Stop (PG-13)
There was a time when Liam Neeson seemed to need such a foreign-sounding name. He played Oskar Schindler, the sensualist-turned-saint who saved a thousand Jews from Hitler’s hands. He played Michael Collins, the fiery revolutionary, and the strangely pious Rob Roy. Anymore, though, I think Liam might as well be a Jack or a John, […]
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The Mission (PG)
In the first half of the 18th century the Jesuit order, an evangelical and zealous Catholic branch of Franciscan monks, undertook missionary work to the Indian tribes in South American jungles. Impressive by any standard, they unabashedly sacrificed comfort, well-being and their own lives for the sake of preaching the Gospel to the aboriginals. The […]