Synopsis
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.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- 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
Recommendations
- 75
IndieWire
The Little Things is pulpy and ridiculous and requires some major suspension of belief, but — if you didn’t know any better — you might even say it’s beautiful. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
In the absence of a clean ending, then, what's left is the familiar intrigue of smart men squinting dolefully at distant horizons and bloodied crime scenes, an ocean of bottled-up feeling, and a movie that takes a good half of its secrets to the grave. - 75
The Playlist
Especially in its upending, pivoting-away-from-crime norms, morally ambiguous ending, Hancock’s picture reveals itself to have much more on its mind than expected, and becomes a thoughtful meditation on the rigors of police work and the psychic toll that it takes on the soul. - 70
Arizona Republic
It’s got an interesting structure — it’s not just about catching a killer but also about revealing Deke’s story. But it ultimately suffers for that, the dueling narratives not blending together so much as competing. Of course, you could do worse than watch actors like Washington, Malek and Leto work. But at the end of The Little Things, you feel like you could do better, too. - 67
The A.V. Club
To enjoy the film on its own cookie-cutter terms depends on finding pleasure, guilty or otherwise, in tropes recycled with total straight-faced conviction. Or maybe to crave comfort food of a variety Hollywood doesn’t churn out quite as frequently as it used to. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Hancock (The Blind Side, The Founder) keeps the action moving briskly and with little tonal confusion, highlighting just what a polished studio-favoured professional can do when given gobs of money and zero intellectual-property obligations. And his trio of leading men are all given ample space to play to their strengths. - 50
IGN
It’s disappointing to see a triad of talented actors like Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto wasted in The Little Things, a straightforward and seldom surprising murder-mystery. - 40
The Guardian
It’s a film trapped between a low- and a highbrow version of a story we know all too well, landing firmly in the middle of the road.
