A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Like a good butcher’s cleaver, it’s weighty, solid and sharp — an effective matching of director and star in what is hopefully the first of a new film series.

A Walk Among the Tombstones is an uncommonly well-made thriller.

As nauseating as the film's inventive sadisms can be, Frank succeeds far more in the details than in the larger picture that tries to relate this world to ours.

Exciting, in places, though a stranger to subtlety, it ticks all the genre boxes, but there’s something about its knowing noirisms that feels superficial rather than soaked-in.

Too formally well crafted to be dismissed, but too straightforward and uncurious to be particularly exciting or insightful.