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The Informer

2019

Andrea Di Stefano

Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Clive Owen, Common ...

5.7

1,800

Thriller Ex-convict and former Special Ops soldier Pete Koslow, in order to free himself from jail and return to his wife and daughter, has been working undercover for crooked FBI handlers to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step toward freedom, Hoffman must return to the one place he’s fought so hard to leave: Bale Hill Prison, where his mission becomes a race against time when a drug deal goes wrong and threatens his identity as a mole. [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It might have made better sense as an episodic drama on television but it is brash and watchable (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"[It] knows its limits, and works tidily within them (...) It remains a surprisingly well-oiled genre machine"	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A solid crime flick whose heart rate never rises to a point commensurate with the many layers of danger its eponymous protagonist faces"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"One of the year’s more pleasant genre surprises (...) It holds together absorbingly, thanks to a sturdy script which ups stakes and adds characters with cunning and intelligence (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"It’s nothing more than a box-ticking exercise created to convince everyone that this is a serious, adult thriller (...) Anyone looking for substance will be left sorely disappointed (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Chris Hunneysett Mirror	"A dry but effective entertainment (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"An absorbing time killer (...) Is any of this plausible? Probably not, but the movie (...) escalates quite nicely"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Kinnaman is reminiscent of a younger Bruce Willis or Clint Eastwood with his magnetic antihero cool (...) An effectively solid actioner (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Ireland	Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"A sluggish, mediocre crime thriller with some decent performances, but an unoriginal story presented without any kind of flair (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times	"'The Informer' isn’t bad. It’s just nothing special. It relies too much on familiar elements"	NEU
Ireland	John Byrne RTÉ	"If you're looking to be entertained for a couple of hours and like your drama tough and tattoo-tastic, 'The Informer' ticks all the boxes (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"[It] delivers some nice early bite before its third act spirals into outright silliness (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"[An] efficiently entertaining thriller (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media	"This mixed bag of an action-thriller is so convoluted that several characters and their motivations get lost in the shuffle, but Kinnaman still carries it with his appealing, commanding performance"	NEU

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