The Little Things
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Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
What critics thought
A serial-killer throwback with a strong three-lead cast — Washington, Malek, and Leto — that critics found professionally made but too derivative of its obvious forebears, particularly Seven, to justify its existence. The central split was between those who found its pulpy atmosphere and performances enough to carry it through, and those who felt its cryptic, unsatisfying ending and overfamiliar haunted-detective machinery left nothing of substance underneath.
“The Little Things is pulpy and ridiculous and requires some major suspension of disbelief, but — if you didn't know any better — you might even say it's beautiful.”
David Ehrlich·IndieWire
“If the director's generally taut original screenplay settles on an ending too cryptic to be fully satisfying, the performances of Denzel Washington and Rami Malek as cops from the old school and the new who end up having more in common than they anticipated supply enough glue to hold everything together.”
David Rooney·The Hollywood Reporter
“at a time when even small-screen procedurals have perma-frowned detectives who spend more time haunted by their past than actually solving crimes in the present, it all feels a little too familiar and a little too minor.”
Benjamin Lee·The Guardian
“It feels like Hancock is trying to tell a very True Detective story—one about how a case can pull the people investigating it apart from the inside in a way that breaks them forever—but he can't figure out how to shape that into an intriguing mystery simultaneously.”
Brian Tallerico·RogerEbert.com
“its modest suspense is largely offset by the fact that there's nothing substantial or especially original lurking beneath its eerie exterior.”
Nick Schager·The Daily Beast
Genres
Drama, Crime, Thriller
Cast & Crew
John Lee HancockDirector
Denzel WashingtonJoe 'Deke' Deacon
Rami MalekJim Baxter
Jared LetoAlbert Sparma
Chris BauerDetective Sal Rizoli
Michael HyattFlo Dunigan
Terry KinneyLASD Captain Carl Farris
Natalie MoralesDetective Jamie Estrada
Isabel ArraizaAna Baxter
Joris JarskyDetective Sergeant Rogers
Glenn MorshowerCaptain Henry Davis
Sofia VassilievaTina Salvatore
Jason James RichterDetective Dennis Williams
Thomas NewmanComposer
John SchwartzmanCinematographyThe Little Things
Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
What critics thought
A serial-killer throwback with a strong three-lead cast — Washington, Malek, and Leto — that critics found professionally made but too derivative of its obvious forebears, particularly Seven, to justify its existence. The central split was between those who found its pulpy atmosphere and performances enough to carry it through, and those who felt its cryptic, unsatisfying ending and overfamiliar haunted-detective machinery left nothing of substance underneath.
“The Little Things is pulpy and ridiculous and requires some major suspension of disbelief, but — if you didn't know any better — you might even say it's beautiful.”
David Ehrlich·IndieWire
“If the director's generally taut original screenplay settles on an ending too cryptic to be fully satisfying, the performances of Denzel Washington and Rami Malek as cops from the old school and the new who end up having more in common than they anticipated supply enough glue to hold everything together.”
David Rooney·The Hollywood Reporter
“at a time when even small-screen procedurals have perma-frowned detectives who spend more time haunted by their past than actually solving crimes in the present, it all feels a little too familiar and a little too minor.”
Benjamin Lee·The Guardian
“It feels like Hancock is trying to tell a very True Detective story—one about how a case can pull the people investigating it apart from the inside in a way that breaks them forever—but he can't figure out how to shape that into an intriguing mystery simultaneously.”
Brian Tallerico·RogerEbert.com
“its modest suspense is largely offset by the fact that there's nothing substantial or especially original lurking beneath its eerie exterior.”
Nick Schager·The Daily Beast
Genres
Drama, Crime, Thriller
Cast & Crew
John Lee HancockDirectorDenzel WashingtonJoe 'Deke' DeaconRami MalekJim BaxterJared LetoAlbert SparmaChris BauerDetective Sal RizoliMichael HyattFlo DuniganTerry KinneyLASD Captain Carl FarrisNatalie MoralesDetective Jamie EstradaIsabel ArraizaAna BaxterJoris JarskyDetective Sergeant RogersGlenn MorshowerCaptain Henry DavisSofia VassilievaTina SalvatoreJason James RichterDetective Dennis WilliamsThomas NewmanComposerJohn SchwartzmanCinematographyRent & Buy