A Walk Among the Tombstones

Name: A Walk Among the Tombstones
Director: Scott Frank
Released: 2014

Synopsis

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

80
Empire
Like a good butcher’s cleaver, it’s weighty, solid and sharp — an effective matching of director and star in what is hopefully the first of a new film series.
80
Village Voice
A Walk Among the Tombstones is an uncommonly well-made thriller.
70
TheWrap
As nauseating as the film's inventive sadisms can be, Frank succeeds far more in the details than in the larger picture that tries to relate this world to ours.
60
Total Film
Exciting, in places, though a stranger to subtlety, it ticks all the genre boxes, but there’s something about its knowing noirisms that feels superficial rather than soaked-in.
60
Variety
Too formally well crafted to be dismissed, but too straightforward and uncurious to be particularly exciting or insightful.
58
The A.V. Club
Every year, so many artless, gormless, generically slick thrillers make their way into theaters that any time a genre director displays basic filmmaking smarts, the result ends up seeming like a retro novelty. Such is the case with writer-director Scott Frank’s murky potboiler A Walk Among The Tombstones.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Distinctly and proudly old-fashioned in its retro, film noir vibe, A Walk Among the Tombstones is notable for its dark atmospherics and strong performance by Liam Neeson.
40
Time Out London
A Walk Among the Tombstones is well paced and fairly watchable, but it does take itself desperately seriously.