Janney is particularly strong, and while I won’t say I needed to see her channeling her inner Liam Neeson, now that I’ve done so, I’m quite glad this bit of absurd strangeness has miraculously happened.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 2, 2022

Plays like an '80s action thriller, with Janney in a brooding role that might have then been played by tough dudes Schwarzenegger or Stallone.

| Original Score: B | Sep 26, 2022

Fun as it is to watch a stone-faced Janney grumble about how “the world’s not a playground” and beat some bad guys to death with a coffee pot, Foerster’s movie is frustratingly light on both.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 23, 2022

The mystery of who Lou is and why she takes an interest in Hannah isn’t as surprising as the movie makes it out to be; but Janney is so commanding as an unlikely action hero that the picture still works.

| Sep 23, 2022

Although it’s slightly overlong, the movie more than measures up to those of Allison Janney's male counterparts in the “serious actor starts kicking ass” subgenre.

| Original Score: B | Sep 23, 2022

Allison Janney proves with Lou that she could carry an action movie. If only she got one worth carrying.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 23, 2022

A film unworthy of both Janney’s talents and our attention.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2022

Sometimes you just want a crazy action movie to kill an evening, and “Lou” fits that bill. Just don’t expect to be thinking about it tomorrow.

| Sep 23, 2022

Unfazed either by the working conditions or by Maggie Cohn and Jack Stanley’s ridiculously over-the-top screenplay, [Janney] lends her grouchy character more than a ramrod spine and steely stare...

| Sep 22, 2022