At the end of the movie, after it appears that Helen Mirren’s Betty has been duped into giving away her fortune to Roy, a con man played by Ian McKellen, she reveals her own master plan …

Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her life and home to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring...

Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself …

The Good Liar: this Ian McKellen-fronted conman thriller is taking Netflix by storm and it’s all down to Helen Mirren’s performance

The film stars Sir Ian McKellen as a conman determined to swindle a former professor, played by Dame Helen Mirren, out of her millions - but what happens in the end? Here’s the film’s big ...

The Good Liar: Fiction with a Spark of Reality. The short answer is no. However, the story was inspired by a real event in a person’s life. ‘The Good Liar’ is based on a novel of the same …

Film Review: ‘The Good Liar’ Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen deliver an acting duet to die for in Bill Condon's delectably clever and civilized con-artist thriller. By Owen Gleiberman

Teaming two knighted acting legends in the same film is inspired, but the result of the collaboration between Sir Ian Mckellen and Dame Helen Mirren in The Good Liar doesn’t quite …

Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren teamed up in a movie for the first time in 2019's London-set thriller The Good Liar. Based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Searle, the movie sees an...

The Good Liar reveals that after living through the hell of seeing her family die due to wartime, suicide, and execution, Lilli swears vengeance on Hans Taub for being responsible for her...

The real good liar is whoever convinced Mirren and McKellen to class up such thin and arbitrary material. The Good Liar. Rated R. Pervasive prevarication. Running time: 1 hour 49 minutes.

The world-class pairing of Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen is the only calling card that “The Good Liar” needs.

NEW YORK (AP) — Roles for older actors can fall into some predictable tropes, but Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen say their new film, “The Good Liar,” let them brush aside cliches and even …

McKellen strives his best with his acting brand — that clotted-vowels coloratura, those glittering eyes in the startled-bloodhound features — while Mirren tries to turn hers into a dapper...

On their first night out together after meeting on a dating site for widowed septuagenarians (OK Boomer?), Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) and Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) take in a screening …

Compared to “grey pound” films like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel or Finding Your Feet, to name a few, Bill Condon’s film is an absolutely outrageous departure, and one that stars Ian McKellen...

“The Good Liar,” adapted from Nicholas Searle’s 2015 novel of the same name, tells the story of an aging con man named Roy Courtnay (McKellen) who conspires to steal the fortune of a …

Just a few days prior, she was busy on the set of Fast & Furious 9, reprising her role as an elegant underworld mastermind, and she can next be seen in The Good Liar (in theaters Nov. …

McKellen also touched on the current state of LGBTQ+ representation in several areas, pointing out there still has not been an openly gay Oscar winner for Best Actor nor an openly gay U.K. …

Ian McKellen said in a recent interview with The Times of London that he feels sorry for fellow actors who feel like they can’t come out as gay. The “X-Men” and “Lord of the Rings” icon ...

For many of us, Ian McKellen is a name synonymous with not only great acting but unwavering authenticity. A national treasure and an openly gay icon since 1988, McKellen has long been …