The Whisper Man review – Robert De Niro sleepwalks through silly Netflix potboiler

A father and son must team up to find a serial killer in a cheaply made and increasingly uninteresting thriller It’s not as if Robert De Niro’s choices have improved all that much since the nadir of the mid-2000s (last year did see him crop up in a Scott Eastwood-led actioner and The Alto Knights) but there’s something specifically rubbishy about his latest that transports us back to that particularly cursed time. The Whisper Man, a film as openly stupid as its title would suggest, could have...

By Benjamin Lee

‘The Whisper Man’ Review: Diverting Netflix Serial Killer Chiller Doesn’t Demand Much of Robert De Niro

“The Whisper Man” is the first — and surely not the last — film to be adapted from the airport oeuvre of British crime novelist Steve Mosby, who since 2019 has written four books (including the source text here) under the pseudonym Alex North. If he didn’t choose that nom de plume to evoke Alex […]

By Guy Lodge

‘The Whisper Man’ Review: Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan and Adam Scott in Netflix’s Twisty Airport Paperback Serial-Killer Procedural

Hamish Linklater and Owen Teague also star in James Ashcroft’s film of Alex North’s crime novel about a series of abductions of young boys in smalltown New Jersey.

By David Rooney

Let’s talk about ‘S&X,’ baby: Netflix drama on sexuality falls flat

The Netflix series tries to destigmatize conversations about sex with unflinching honesty, but flattens the story in the process.

‘The Whisper Man’ Review: Robert De Niro, Adam Scott And Killer Cast Fuel Explosive Netflix Crime Drama

Crime dramas, notably ones revolving around notorious serial killers, are the stuff of TV limited series in every shape and form. This adaptation of Alex North’s bestseller The Whisper Man is one you might normally expect to turn up in the limited-series format which, particularly with the lesser ones, tend to drag things out interminably […]

By Pete Hammond

The Whisper Man Review

The Whisper Man review: Robert De Niro and Adam Scott headline a trope-heavy thriller that feels like a throwback to another era.

By Arnold T. Blumberg

Robert De Niro’s New Netflix Thriller Gets Official Verdict From Author As He Details Film Involvement

Exclusive: Robert De Niro's new Netflix thriller gets an official review from the author of its source material as he also explains his involvement.

By Grant Hermanns