I couldn't help but be blown away by how skillful Filomarino is as a filmmaker, especially because it's his first English-language film. Go in with low expectations, and it might just take your breath away.

| Original Score: A | Mar 6, 2024

Beckett is a throwback to 70s thrillers that’s easily dismissible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2022

As is the case with Frantic, the unique setting and socialization of Beckett gives it an idiosyncratic European flavor, a sort of arthouse spin on a generic American thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2022

Filomarino’s film begs for a deeper consideration and asks its audience to look beyond its genre exterior. Its story may be simple to a fault and its themes too subtle for their own good. But there’s more meat on the movie’s bones that it may first appear

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

The setting is important. The signs are smartly scattered.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2022

It is in the third act that Beckett completely goes off the rails. What started out as an intimate film, morphed into a genre film within the first fifteen minutes, starts to look like a fan-made Homeland episode.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2022

This action-packed thriller aims to exploit the unexpected, offering a suspenseful watch with a unique combination of storyline, location, and actors.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2021

Shall I go on to talk about the fact that the music tries to supply the tension that's not in the script? Or that we never do understand who the various bad guys represent? And that by the end we no longer care?

| Sep 28, 2021

Beneath the stylish surface, the film lacks the meaningful sociocultural depth to supplement its straightforward twists.

| Sep 10, 2021

Good -- not great -- but certainly worth checking out.

| Sep 9, 2021

Who doesn't love this kind of thriller when done well, but this is stumbling, loosely conceived and lacks conviction, despite terrific cinematography and music of mood

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2021

There's a Hitchcockian simplicity to Ferdinando Cito Filomarino's Beckett, a man-on-the-run thriller that benefits as much from what it doesn't do as what it does.

| Original Score: B | Sep 2, 2021

Beckett can feel like the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time and in the wrong movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 1, 2021

Another streaming actioner that feels like a pumped-out product riding its star's marquee.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2021

"Beckett" has all the prerequisites at which Hitchcock excelled. An amiable, reasonably good-looking man, generally in control of his life, must flee damaging forces beyond his control.

| Aug 26, 2021

It could be a lot better. It could be a lot stronger as it approaches the finish. But there's something to be said for watching a guy hide in a car trunk and think, "For him, this is probably the best part of his day."

| Aug 21, 2021

The chase aspect and the beautiful 70s-ish cinematography in Beckett makes the film an enjoyable watch. Washington also successfully delivers an exciting performance as a man on the run, even though you might have to overlook some of the unrealistic flaws

| Aug 20, 2021

[A] thriller lacking thrills, an action movie short on action. With pedestrian direction and a script that is both thin and convoluted, Beckett never stood a chance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2021

[A] less than thrilling thriller.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2021

"Beckett" isn't horrible but it seems uncertain as to what it truly wants to be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2021