The Whisper Man. (L-R) Robert De Niro arsenic Peter Willis, Adam Scott arsenic Tom Kennedy and Michelle Monaghan arsenic Amanda Beck successful The Whisper Man.
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Netflix has erstwhile again rounded up a slate of high-profile actors for an original characteristic film, 1 that has, unsurprisingly, deed #1 connected the work immediately.
The movie is The Whisper Man, which stars Robert De Niro, True Detective’s Michelle Monaghan, and Severance’s Adam Scott, alongside Michael Keaton, Hamish Linklater, and Acston Luca Porto. It’s directed by James Ashcroft, who has not made a movie this widely-watched to date, fixed that it is difficult to apical being the #1 movie connected Netflix, aft all. Here’s the synopsis of The Whisper Man:
“A grieving begetter and his young boy relocate to the quiet municipality of Featherbank, which was terrorized by a serial slayer known arsenic The Whisper Man 15 years earlier, while rumors move that Whisper Man worked pinch an accomplice.”
So, The Whisper Man isn’t a ghost, but a serial killer. It was astir apt a coin flip pinch a sanction for illustration that. A caller crime movie pinch large stars and Robert De Niro successful the thumbnail? It’s nary wonderment that The Whisper Man is already enormously celebrated connected Netflix. But is it immoderate good?
As of now, critics and audiences some opportunity no. The Whisper Man has a 41% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics and a barely-better 45% assemblage score. Its 6.3/10 connected IMDB is marginally better, but the wide belief is no, the movie isn’t great. The Whisper Man besides comes connected the backmost of different Netflix scary movie, The Last House. That movie was antecedently #1 for a spell and besides featured awesome actors for illustration Wagner Moura and Greta Lee. And it was besides bad, a 22% professional people and a 27% assemblage score. Having seen the movie, I’d opportunity that is accurate.
The Whisper Man. Michelle Monaghan arsenic Amanda Beck successful The Whisper Man.
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It’s not perfect for Adam Scott, who conscionable came disconnected a really awesome move successful different 2026 scary movie, Hokum, truthful he’s 1-for-2 there. Michelle Monaghan’s highest-profile domiciled lately was successful the latest play of The White Lotus, though she’ll soon beryllium backmost successful Bad Monkey season 2. As for Robert De Niro, the legendary character doesn’t ever return legendary roles these days, and his caller history is very hit-or-miss. His past Netflix partnership, the miniseries Zero Day, put up rotten scores. His astir caller movie domiciled successful 2025, Tin Soldier, has a 3.3/10 connected IMDB and an 8%(!) Rotten Tomatoes score. But past we only person to spell backmost to 2023 erstwhile he starred successful the awesome Killers of the Flower Moon, which reunited him pinch Martin Scorsese. So big, large hits and big, large misses.
This is acold from the first Netflix original serial slayer tale, arsenic astir famously, Mindhunter is 1 of the champion bid connected the service. This does, however, look to beryllium different lawsuit of the Netflix sanction being capable to combine and salary a big-name formed for comparatively lackluster results. Many specified cases.
If you want to watch The Whisper Man, you mightiness arsenic well. It’s nether 2 hours and astatine slightest the formed is good. You mightiness for illustration it much than you think, and I’m going to springiness it a changeable conscionable successful lawsuit critics and audiences are measurement disconnected base.
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