It’s a deluxe nostalgia trip guided by a director who really knows his way around the genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2023

Jordan does a competent job, but this is not a patch on his best films...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 18, 2023

It lurches along, scene by perfunctory scene, with the narrative fluency of treacle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2023

There’s a little bit of fun and interest along the way and Lange has some fun with her eccentric persona, but this feels under-energised.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2023

The story is laden with red herrings and punched-up dialogue, but little manages no land.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 22, 2023

In his 100th movie, Liam Neeson is spot on as the flatfoot, just when it seemed like the Irish star’s career had devolved into one violent revenge fantasy after the next.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2023

Ironies build, narrow escapes accelerate, and familiar fisticuffs multiply, to little avail, in William Monaghan’s yawning screenplay.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2023

Thanks to the high-end production values, the juicy script and the vigorous performances from that first-rate cast, it’s great to see another iteration of Marlowe on the case.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2023

Marlowe is no classic from the case files. It lacks the intricacy of Chandler's best mysteries, that sense of being helplessly pulled into a labyrinth of compounding revelations.

| Feb 16, 2023

“Marlowe,” enveloped with a strong smell of mothballs, feels like an old pinstripe suit that’s been taken out of the closet for no apparent reason.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 15, 2023

Marlowe is the cinematic equivalent of a word salad: It parrots all the right lines while striking all the right poses, without saying much of anything at all.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 15, 2023

Liam Neeson's particular set of skills can't rescue this noir misfire.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 15, 2023

Revisionist this may be, but it’s done with smarts and ... perceptiveness and sensitivity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2023

While the star adequately acquits himself, Neil Jordan’s throwback noir is a cover song that knows all the notes but can’t capture its predecessor’s spirit.

| Feb 15, 2023

The cast is large and the costume and set designers have been kept busy with period details, but “Marlowe” neither dutifully copies nor cleverly updates detective-movie tropes.

| Feb 14, 2023

Merely cosplays a 1930s detective movie, taking us from two-fisted private dick to icy rich client to corruption among the powerful as though we hadn’t seen all of this countless times before.

| Feb 14, 2023

A detective movie so pulpy that it will make you choke.

| Feb 14, 2023

Sticking to film noir traditions to a fault (minus the black & white), Marlowe feels mostly like cinematic karaoke.

| Feb 14, 2023

With the exception of Jessica Lange, who tears into her fairly brief role as a wealthy and wicked former movie star, everyone in “Marlowe” is directed as if to seem groggy with depression.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 13, 2023

Neil Jordan’s Marlowe is an homage so riddled with noir clichés that one may initially take it for a genre parody, except that the jokes never arrive.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 13, 2023