Lou

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Lou

R

2022

1h 47m

Crime

Drama

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Thinking she'd put her dangerous past behind her, Lou (Allison Janney) finds her quiet life interrupted when a desperate mother (Jurnee Smollett) begs her to save her kidnapped daughter. As a massive storm rages, the two women risk their lives on a rescue mission that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.

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Critics Consensus

From a storyline or set piece perspective, Lou doesn't add much to the action genre -- but it does serve as a generally entertaining reminder that Allison Janney is not to be trifled with.

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Everything around her is different degrees of disappointing, but Allison Janney makes Lou worth watching -- if only barely.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

10/02/2022

3/4

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.

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Adam Graham

Detroit News

09/26/2022

B

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

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David Ehrlich

IndieWire

09/23/2022

D+

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.

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Nuha Hassan

Nuha Hassan (Medium)

09/08/2023

The movie has one of those twists that need to build suspense which isn’t written properly.

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Ruth Maramis

FlixChatter Film Blog

08/24/2023

3/5

An atmospheric blend of survival thriller & crime mystery. Well worth a watch for Allison Janney's badass performance, Lou is Bear Grylls meets Jason Bourne with a dollop of TAKEN’s Bryan Mills.

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Dan Buffa

Dose of Buffa

02/08/2023

C+

This is another serviceable Netflix actioner that will do the trick for a late night watch, yet won’t be something on your mind the following morning.

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Dave L

14h

Very enjoyable, well written and great cast.

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Dean S.

@DeanDFW Dec 29

This is a very good movie: good actors and a good script.

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JM H

@JMH9999 Nov 16

Very dark throughout, but well acted and neat twist toward the end.

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Drew F

@Drewfrost20 Aug 8

This movie is solid. Grabs you right in the beginning and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Falls a bit short at the end. They could have cut the last 10minutes out and finished at the final climax. Still definitely worth a one time watch.

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Aidan B

Jul 18

Absolutely abysmal. Totally predictable with the usual frustrating type of characters. You even get to hate the good guys because they are so annoying. Storyline is so weak. Anyone got a wall they've just painted so I can watch it dry?

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Kyle M

May 13

Allison Janney’s performance embodies how the film’s tactically intellectual and stand on her own somewhat resonating ground against the rest of the frustrating screenplay’s “thrilling” mode that only limited its intentional direction to come off as psychologically nonsensical with unfulfilled gaps that would’ve rounded this as a better, more soundly balanced picture. (B-)

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Synopsis

Thinking she'd put her dangerous past behind her, Lou (Allison Janney) finds her quiet life interrupted when a desperate mother (Jurnee Smollett) begs her to save her kidnapped daughter. As a massive storm rages, the two women risk their lives on a rescue mission that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts.

Director: Anna Foerster
Producer: J.J. Abrams, Jon Cohen, Hannah Minghella
Screenwriter: Maggie Cohn, Jack Stanley
Production Co: Bad Robot
Rating: R (Language and Violence)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 23, 2022
Runtime: 1h 47m

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