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By Jomzx (1) on 13 Aug 2021

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE TRÀSH OF A MOVIE. The pacing is as slow as my dad just leaving to buy milk only to come back 6 years later…

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By Bertobellamy (400) on 13 Aug 2021

A very convoluted plot, boring stakes, and messy character development make 'Beckett' a pretty forgettable film…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 13 Aug 2021

Washington is a likable actor and easy on the eyes, but the character is unproductively one-dimensional and so is the performance, which remains…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 13 Aug 2021

If you didn’t know Beckett was a thriller, you’d think it was about two mismatched people with dry interests, mundane conversations, and…

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By Metacriticonur (388) on 13 Aug 2021

Bad [ bad ] adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36. not good in any manner or degree…

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By Michael Ordona (350) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Aug 2021

It’s a ‘70s paranoia movie in the best sense. And this is no hackneyed tribute; it’s complex, murky, propulsive…

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By Sarah Hagi (23) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Aug 2021

Despite its shortcomings, Beckett manages to be a semi-effective thriller, with Washington holding enough attention to get the audience to…

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By Erik Nielsen (7) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 11 Aug 2021

Its setup is elevated, even after it goes from one close call to another, by the dream logic Filomarino instills in the minutiae of his story’s…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 Aug 2021

Apart from a few lapses, Filomarino is straightforward and gets the job done…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 11 Aug 2021

This is every bit the international thriller, from the exotic locations to the global political elements to the cast…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 11 Aug 2021

If you’re going to keep your audience guessing, you need to provide them with answers they care about. Beckett doesn’t…

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By Scott Campbell (94) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 10 Aug 2021

Beckett is a solid Netflix effort that offers a throwback to the intense political manhunt thrillers of the 1970s…

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By William Repass (34) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Aug 2021

It’s thanks to a kind of tug of war between background and foreground that Beckett succeeds as a piece of entertainment…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Aug 2021

It’s intriguing to see Filomarino experiment with the formula and exciting to imagine where his career might go from here…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 04 Aug 2021

Thin and politically disengaged as this diverting Euro-thriller can be, it never forgets how even the most desperate of people can be left…

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By Roxana Hadadi (336) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Aug 2021

The Beckett character is sparsely written, and the sometimes bland performance Washington delivers doesn’t fill in many characterization…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 04 Aug 2021

Beckett, though, has better films in its DNA - it is by no means original…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 04 Aug 2021

For a film in which John David Washington lurches, staggers, stumbles, shambles, flounders, falters, wobbles, scrabbles and totters across…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 Aug 2021

Directed with a workmanlike lack of style by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and written by Kevin A…

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