Denzel Washington is on the case in âThe Little Thingsâ
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated January 27, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
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Denzel Washington and Jared Leto in The Little Things. Warner Bros. Pictures via AP
Can Denzel Washington make a comedy next? A light slapstick farce, perhaps? âThe Little Things,â a turgid cop thriller arriving in area theaters and on HBO Max, comes on the heels of the âEqualizerâ movies and the actorâs angry, electric turn in âFencesâ (2016) and makes a prime case for turning that frown upside down. At times here, it hardens into a deep scowl; perhaps meant to signal existential unease, it reads more as a call for Metamucil.
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Hollywood star Denzil Washington says he found working with actors Rami Malek and Jared Leto on film, The Little Things, fascinating and inspiring.Recalling a sequence from the film, Washington said: "Jared and Rami were in the .
Movies like “The Little Things” feel like a vanishing breed. In the wake of the success of “The Silence of the Lambs,” there seemed to be a dark, brooding thriller adaptation every week with titles like “Kiss the Girls” and “The Bone Collector,” and it felt like half of them starred Denzel Washington. In recent years, this genre has largely become the product of television, as shows like “True Detective” and “Mindhunter” have taken on stories of men haunted by the crimes they investigate. That’s part of what makes “The Little Things” feel dated, although the way it recalls better films with similar themes, particularly David Fincher’s “Seven,” does it no favors too. It’s a movie that s constantly on the verge of developing into something as intense and haunting as writer/director John Lee Hancock wants it to be, but it never achieves its goals, especially in its final half-hour. Some of the major stuff here works, including a performance from Wa
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A Chicago police officer charged in a federal sports gambling case allegedly destroyed his phone when investigators sought to search it, a detail revealed Tuesday as a prosecutor tried to keep the officer behind bars for an alleged violent attack on the officer’s girlfriend.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall last week ordered the officer, Nicholas Stella, into Chicago’s federal lockup after prosecutors said Stella “violently assaulted his girlfriend” Jan. 16. The judge confirmed her ruling at the end of a hearing Tuesday, during which the prosecutor played a recorded 911 call placed by the girlfriend after the alleged attack at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont.