![]() This doesn’t make the film irredeemably bad or worthless. But in its frozen-in-time sensibilities, its stubborn refusal to engage with the evolution of the police-procedural genre, The Little Things arrives with a deflated, why-bother sense of futility. And it is genuinely refreshing to see a big-budget movie starring real-deal actors that doesn’t involve superheroes, harbour franchise ambitions or seek to trade in on easy paperback-to-screen familiarity. On the one hand, that is a remarkable and admirable feat rarely does a screenplay spend so many decades in development hell without being completely reconceived in the process. Rami Malek plays a hot-shot LAPD homicide detective facing a docket full of murdered young women. And Jared Leto is the long-haired freak who brings the two officers together for the case of a lifetime. ![]() Malek is the hot-shot LAPD homicide detective facing a docket full of murdered young women. Washington plays the gruff, seen-it-all cop who, suffering burnout after his last murder case went sideways, lives a quiet life patrolling California highways and tending to his dog. And not only because the film takes place in the mid-1990s.įollowing two odd-couple cops and their hunt for a Los Angeles-based predator, writer-director John Lee Hancock’s film is a just-the-facts-ma’am procedural so straight-ahead it might recalibrate your pandemic-hunched spine. Because while the new serial-killer thriller was filmed at the tail end of 2019 and features stars both everlasting (Denzel Washington) and rising (Rami Malek), its story, characters and overall execution feel recovered from a time capsule, buried circa 1997. There is something exciting and fresh about encountering something so old as The Little Things. Starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto.Written and directed by John Lee Hancock.Plan your screen time with the weekly What to Watch newsletter.
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