Movie 26. The Little Things (2021)
We watched this on HBO Max - Denzel Washington is an old cop returning to work a case that reminds him of a string of unsolved cases from way back when, helping Rami Malek along the way.
This movie kind of hits all sorts of boring notes to me. It's relentlessly grim in tone, lionizes the cop experience as struggling to do the right thing, features little actual action (as opposed to the "suspense moments"), ends
relatively unsolved
. Movies like this can really redeem themselves with something really great in their ending, but this was definitely not up my alley.
It ranks slightly above Nocturnal Animals, the most similar movie on my list, and that's because it had slightly fewer things that bothered me - Jared Leto being unhinged is somewhat more bearable than the violence against innocents in Nocturnal Animals. So it was less uncomfortable to watch, but it says even less, so maybe it should rank lower, in hindsight.
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