The Good Liar's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
This mystery thriller is outrageous and irresistible, an old-fashioned drama with dashes of Patricia Highsmith, Patrick Hamilton, John le Carré [...]. It features delicious performances by Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen.
Variety
The pleasure of 'The Good Liar', and it?s a major one, is the chance to watch Mirren and McKellen act together in a cat-and-mouse duet that turns into an elegant waltz of affection and deception.
Indiewire
Pleasant and preposterous in almost precisely equal measure, the film never offers anything less than two all-time British actors having the time of their lives, which makes it hard to get frustrated that it seldom offers anything more
Empire
McKellen and Mirren, sharing the screen for the first time, are exquisitely matched in this slight but enjoyable yarn, which is like watching two magnificent vintage cars in a road race, without minding too much who wins.
The Hollywood Reporter
For all its nasty twists and turns, its fake-outs and flashbacks and cheekily preposterous pile-up of double-crosses, this story of an elderly con man and the wealthy widow he targets feels fatally devoid of danger.
Screen Daily
Hoping to be a stylish, witty conman thriller, 'The Good Liar' starts out as an amusing lark but fails to stay ahead of its audience, piling on the ludicrousness until it?s impossible to take the proceedings seriously.
The Wrap
'The Good Liar' really wants to be either a thriller or a caper. Unfortunately, it has neither the excitement necessary for the former nor the fun required of the latter.
The Telegraph
The film?s twists, alas, fall into one of two categories ? the obvious and the tasteless ? and the side-orders of gruesome violence feel like they?ve been delivered to quite the wrong table.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote