DVD
The good news about The Commuter (15) ★★★is that it’s a trash Liam Neeson actioner. The bad news is that it’s trash. After a bad day at the office, Neeson is on the train home when a dame (Vera Farmiga) starts chatting him up. How’d he like $100,000, she asks. All Neeson has to do is identify a passenger.
The film has some nice set-pieces. There’s a great moment when our hero drops under the train. But like the now 65-year-old Neeson (right), the movie looks tired.
The Post (12) has more energy. Dialogue-heavy, the picture relies on its performers. Meryl Streep is on slowburn as the newspaper proprietor, but it is Tom Hanks, as the editor, who really holds the front page. He contrives to both never stop talking and to never let you see his lips move.
Brad’s Status (15) is an earful too. Its hero is a midlife dad (Ben Stiller) escorting his son around Ivy League campuses. Stiller is at his best here, twitchy, touchy and tortured.