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The Informer may prove a passable diversion for less demanding thriller fans, but most of its ingredients have been recycled from superior entries in the genre.
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For all "The Informer" lacks in surface style - shot and scored as it is in functional, straight-to-VOD fashion - it remains a surprisingly well-oiled genre machine. Jan 1, 2020 | Full Review…
For all "The Informer" lacks in surface style - shot and scored as it is in functional, straight-to-VOD fashion - it remains a surprisingly well-oiled genre machine.
Guy Lodge
The Informer features an unnecessarily complicated web of conflicted loyalties and loose motivations. Oct 10, 2019 | Rating: 2/5
The Informer features an unnecessarily complicated web of conflicted loyalties and loose motivations.
Clarisse Loughrey
It's nothing we've not seen before, but it's pulled off with slick effectiveness and has enough bumps in the road to demand your attention to the end. Aug 31, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's nothing we've not seen before, but it's pulled off with slick effectiveness and has enough bumps in the road to demand your attention to the end.
Ed Potton
The Informer is one of the year's more pleasant genre surprises: a clenched fist of a crime thriller in the mode of The Departed or The Town, in which every element is just a notch smarter than you'd expect. Aug 29, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The Informer is one of the year's more pleasant genre surprises: a clenched fist of a crime thriller in the mode of The Departed or The Town, in which every element is just a notch smarter than you'd expect.
Tim Robey
It might have made better sense as an episodic drama on television but it is brash and watchable, its world reeking with cynicism and fear. Aug 28, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It might have made better sense as an episodic drama on television but it is brash and watchable, its world reeking with cynicism and fear.
Peter Bradshaw
It's a thriller that favours brawn over brains, punching its way through any plot predicaments. Aug 27, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a thriller that favours brawn over brains, punching its way through any plot predicaments.
Philip De Semlyen
Stumbles as it searches for a resolution, but the journey there is captivating, hitting a great number of steely cinema highlights and orchestrating enough turns of aggression to pass. Jan 8, 2020 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Stumbles as it searches for a resolution, but the journey there is captivating, hitting a great number of steely cinema highlights and orchestrating enough turns of aggression to pass.
Brian Orndorf
The Informer is a solid, entertaining thriller with gritty action scenes that makes full use of its plot to drive the suspense, instead of Hollywood's typical big-budget blockbuster approach. Jan 6, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
The Informer is a solid, entertaining thriller with gritty action scenes that makes full use of its plot to drive the suspense, instead of Hollywood's typical big-budget blockbuster approach.
Neil Soans
Outside of the Easy Money series, Kinnaman has rarely been allowed to utilize his tightly wound intensity this explicitly. Jan 6, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Outside of the Easy Money series, Kinnaman has rarely been allowed to utilize his tightly wound intensity this explicitly.
Chuck Bowen
On its surface, The Informer is familiar but the plot heavy film establishes its value in the way that it unpredictably resists classification with an unpredictable plot turn at every corner and an excellent central performance from Kinnaman. Nov 16, 2019 | Full Review…
On its surface, The Informer is familiar but the plot heavy film establishes its value in the way that it unpredictably resists classification with an unpredictable plot turn at every corner and an excellent central performance from Kinnaman.
Andrew Kendall
The Informer feels like a throwback in every positive sense of the word. It is a rough and intense thriller that has a great deal of tension that propels it to stand out with its B-Movie qualities. Oct 17, 2019 | Full Review…
The Informer feels like a throwback in every positive sense of the word. It is a rough and intense thriller that has a great deal of tension that propels it to stand out with its B-Movie qualities.
Jak-Luke Sharp
The Informer may not be the best in the business, but it does its job well enough. Sep 25, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The Informer may not be the best in the business, but it does its job well enough.
Jeanmarie Tan
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