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Sep 23, 2022 · Once Lou and Hannah get out into the torrential rain, “Lou” should have had momentum as a survival thriller. And there’s a great action scene in a cabin wherein the title character unleashes her training on a couple of dudes who don’t see it coming.
Sep 23, 2022 · LOU (2022) on Netflix is a new survival thriller starring Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, and Logan Marshall-Green. Great suspense, intense action, and brutally realistic consequences. Definitely watch this. Read our full Lou movie review here!
- The Movie Lou Is Not as Good as The Character Lou
- Allison Janney Kills It in Lou
- Anna Foerster Directs Great Action For The Otherwise Middling Netflix Movie
- Lou Should've Been About The Action
Janney plays the titular Lou, a grumpy older woman who lives alone ten miles outside of town. She is solitude incarnate, and while the film's script often paints her as a knockoff version of Lee Curtis' gray-haired character Laurie Strode in the Halloweenreboots, Janney makes Lou her own woman. She's the kind of tough, capable person who drags a gu...
The very first frame of the film features Janney's silhouette in a doorframe, immediately bringing to mind that John Wayne classic The Searchersand its iconic final shot. It's a clever way to introduce a film about a kidnapped child and the tough old crank who hunts her down, swapping out the genders and setting the stage for the film's similar the...
Ludicrous and emotionally flat-lining as it may often be, Lou remains entertaining throughout thanks to Janney's committed performance and director Anna Foerster's action movie intelligence. Having directed great action sequences for the television shows Marvel's Jessica Jones and Westworld, and working on every explosion-filled Roland Emmerich mov...
Lou is a film that wants to be a thriller but should've been a downright action movie. If Foerster was able to just let loose with Louand create more great action sequences than these, it would have been a pretty wonderful film, one truly worthy of Janney's great performance. Ultimately, Lou is just like its titular character — detached, damaged, a...
Sep 22, 2022 · Whatever else one might say about the Netflix thriller “Lou,” making it must have been murder. Pummeled by near-constant rain, soaked in swampy mud and battered by frequent bouts of hand-to ...
Sep 23, 2022 · With Cohn and Stanley’s spirited screenplay humanizing even the worst of characters, Lou is bound to be a conflicting yet interesting watching experience for viewers. Lou released on Netflix Friday, September 23. The film is 107 minutes long and rated R for violence and language.
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Sep 23, 2022 · Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Lou’ on Netflix, in Which Allison Janney Gets Grim and Grizzled for a Survivalist Suspense-Thriller. By John Serba. Published Sep. 23, 2022, 12:00 p.m. ET. 0 of 2...
Sep 26, 2022 · Features. Lou ending explained: Do they find Vee? Who survives? By Lucy Buglass. published 26 September 2022. Lou ending explained — here's what happened at the end of the Netflix thriller. Allison Janney as titular character Lou.(Image credit: Netflix) Warning! Contains spoilers forLou!
