Se7en. The thriller isn’t shy about its influences: The second shot is a straight lift from
The Silence of the Lambs, with Sofia Vassilieva rocking out to “Roam” instead of Brooke Smith and “American Girl.” Unfortunately,
The Little Things never reaches the same heights of gothic weirdness or stylized gore as the best of the films it echoes.
If Hancock had made it in the 1990s, it would have been a solid middle-of-the-pack entry. In 2021, it’s a throwback.
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Denzel Washington stars as Joe Deacon, a former detective from the Los Angeles Sherriff’s Department who burned out so spectacularly he ended up a sheriff’s deputy in Kern County. Circumstances conspire to send Joe back to Los Angeles, where he discovers that the killer from the unsolved case that broke him has struck again. He forms an unlikely but (given the genre) inevitable bond with fellow Oscar winner Rami Malek’s up-and-coming detective, and their investigation leads them