Should be an engaging picture of the backrooms of power and the machinations that brought down a government but instead it is a talky affair that relies on exposition rather than thrills.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2021

...as for Felt, he mostly just seems to get wearier as the ordeal drags on. Unfortunately, so does the movie.

| Dec 11, 2020

This is Neeson's hour in virtually every humor-less frame, which lends the material the requisite ambience it needs. At the same time, Felt himself now seems like a footnote of the era, which relegates the film to a certain peripheral undertaking.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 26, 2020

Neeson's buttoned-down, bordering on uptight, performance as Felt is a genuine pleasure to behold. It's nice to be reminded that he's capable of dialing things back a bit.

| May 14, 2020

There was so much genuine intrigue around the events on which this movie is based. Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House only scratches the surface.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2019

Never achieves much tension, but Neeson's great.

| Jan 19, 2019

It is well made, with a great cast, but it just feels too conventional with very little insight into its title character.

| Original Score: C | Dec 14, 2018

A deliberately paced affair, slow sometimes to a fault but also simmering away ready to boil over at any moment, awash with a sense of paranoia and intrigue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2018

Despite suffering greatly from being far too expositional, still manages to somehow get under your skin and is likely to stay with you long after the credits have rolled.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2018

Liam Neeson, clearly having trouble stepping back from action-thriller mode, isn't brilliant as Felt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2018

Felt, the grandee who became the informer known as Deep Throat, is played by a rigid Liam Neeson in a bad wig; no room is found for humour or pithy period details.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2018

The biggest flaws are in the script, which contains some real howlers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2018

Some of the detail about Felt's private life feels like a distraction but this is mostly a solid, absorbing political drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 23, 2018

The complexity of Felt's motives are left untouched in the interests of having a fiercely principled hero at the film's centre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2018

Unfortunately, the movie around him is as flat and formulaic as a Washington pen-pusher.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2018

The story's accidental timeliness may generate some interest, but the film kills it pretty swiftly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2018

Peter Landesmen's Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House at least offers a fresh perspective on a very familiar story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2018

There is lots of menace; little magic; and a growing sense that this film could be sent straight out to schools, where minds in need of learning won't be corrupted by nuance, flair or artistry.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2018

Sadly the film's long-winded title is emblematic of a rather convoluted endeavour, albeit entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2018

Mark Felt is a lacklustre staging of a fascinating episode in recent US history. Despite Neeson's strong presence, this is a deep throat that never finds its voice.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2018