'The Good Liar,' The Con Is A Pro — As Expected
In Bill Condon's film set among London's septuagenarian set, Ian McKellan attempts to con Helen Mirren out of her fortune, but we're always one step ahead of the story.
by Andrew Lapin
Nov 14, 2019
2 minutes
When a movie is called The Good Liar, you expect a certain amount of deception. So how many con jobs would you say, on average, you'd want out of a nearly two-hour con film to feel like you'd gotten your money's worth of swindles? Is it more than one or two? If so, bad news.
That's not to say the pulpy new retiree thriller, headlined
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