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  Review by shay ★★★ 2

  liam neeson's agent: i have a movie for you
  liam neeson:
  liam neeson's agent: your family's life is on the line
  liam neeson: i'll do it

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 3

  Collet-Serra brings his usual lean visual economy and tight, rhythmic cutting to another exciting, claustrophobic Hitchcockian pulp thriller. The way the camera moves around the train is fantastic and I appreciate the subtle way it doubles formally as an attempt to depict the communal language of the working people who occupy that space every day. Best title sequence this side of Fincher's Dragon Tattoo. Fuck you Goldman Sachs. "If you wanna know what god thinks about money... look at the people he gives it to."

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 2

  There's something reassuring about seeing a very silly thriller made with legit craft that understands exactly how silly it is.

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  Review by David Sims ★★★½ 1

  choo choo

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★

  Sturdy but unsurprising. If you're looking for an impeccable formal exercise featuring a train as an analog for runaway capitalism do yourself a favor and re-watch UNSTOPPABLE.

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  Review by DirkH ★★½ 5

  Liam Neeson Gets Blackmailed On Public Transport: Part 2

  Can't wait for part 3.

  I'd suggest a tram.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½

  Economic anxiety and our mechanized life. The Hollywood and late capitalist machinery at work, one and the same, with police state conspiracy as mediator. The American working class might not go to heaven, but has a meeting with a derailed train. Jaume Collet-Serra, Hollywood de facto #1 working man, is no Tony Scott, he will punch the clocks and keep the engines running (give or take the occasional dodgy CG and plot mechanics),  but he will also see everything.

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  Review by Arnon🪐 ★★ 1

  If I had a nickel for every time Vera Farmiga played a significant role in a film where a male protagonist is stuck in an active train, then I’d have... 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s wierd it’s happened twice

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★★ 9

  liam neeson does MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING.

  i remember thinking the commuter was merely cool back in 2018, but now i'm able to value how sleekly-directed this is by JCS, the multifaceted details of liam neeson's performance, the smart script that deftly integrates the post-2008 financial crisis malaise into an occupy wall street thriller -- this 2010s era of neeson vehicles feels like the final flourishing of the hollywood b-picture before it was gobbled-up by the low production values of streaming services. i mean, this is edited so cleverly, it has such a sensitivity for its characters, there's a real human pulse here when there absolutely didn't have to be.

  i have adopted the severe cahiers-inflected attitude: give me a modest movie…

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  Review by gregs1999 ★★★

  Non-Stop but on a train. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson make it a little interesting, but the characters Liam Neeson has to investigate didn’t keep me guessing, as it was the same slight of hind Jaume used last time. At least we got more entertaining action, with the train crash and absolutely bombastic fighting.

  Jaume Collet-Serra ranked

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★

  Jaume Collet-Serra’s STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, flipping the bird to Trump’s economy and then proceeding to engage in ostentatious one take fight scenes, and total chaos during the final reel. No one’s making mid-level action movies like he is right now; as he’s Tony Scott and Renny Harlin, wearing this rather gaudy DTV Brian De Palma dress. A total fucking blast.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★½ 3

  The silliest of the low-rent, high-impact thrillers that Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson have made together (“Unknown,” “Non-Stop,” and “Run All Night” being the previous three), “The Commuter” may not match the potent charge of their earlier collaborations, but this amusingly ridiculous ride is still a few cuts above the kind of swill you’d expect to arrive in theaters on the second weekend of January.

  This may be a forgettable movie about the forgotten man — a blue-collar morality play disguised as a very contrived hostage crisis — but at least it’s shlock with something on its mind. It’s the kind of action vehicle that Barton Fink might have written if he arrived in Hollywood during the mid-’90s.

  Neeson plays…