BBC iPlayer now streaming 'outrageous' thriller starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen for free

A suspenseful thriller is present streaming wholly for escaped and it's a must-watch for the weekend

BBC iPlayer has conscionable added a tantalising transgression play to its escaped streaming lineup, and it's a doozy you'll privation to dive into.

The movie not lone comes from the originative caput of Sunday Times bestselling writer Nicholas Searle, but it marks the archetypal clip surface legends Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen person joined forces connected film.

In a stellar performance, McKellen stars arsenic a seasoned trickster eyeing up his last mark: a well-off widow played by the arsenic formidable Mirren.

But arsenic helium delves deeper into his past expansive deception, the widow's grandson gets omniscient to his game.

If this storyline catches your fancy, dart implicit to The Good Liar connected BBC iPlayer pronto to unravel its galore stunning revelations, reports the Express.

Remember that films typically enactment enactment connected the work for 30 days post-debut, truthful you've got a little model to drawback this beguiling flick earlier the festive fervour kicks in.

Even The Guardian gave The Good Liar a motion arsenic 1 of 2019's unappreciated gems you apt missed.

Catherine Shoard penned: "It's not conscionable precise good made, it's besides supremely entertaining 1 of fewer films I've seen successful caller years wherever I truly wanted to cognize what happens next," and "This isn't a knowing homage similar Knives Out nor a glossily postmodern container of secrets, similar Pain and Glory," she further remarks.

"It's conscionable a straight-down-the-line thriller, built connected a nest of twists, perched connected shifting sands. It won't particularly marque you outcry oregon laugh, oregon deliberation otherwise astir the world. But it wholly commands your attention."

Critic Peter Bradshaw concurred with this view, penning for the aforesaid outlet astatine the clip of release: "This enigma thriller is outrageous and irresistible, an old-fashioned play with dashes of Patricia Highsmith, Patrick Hamilton, John le Carre and possibly Elizabeth Jane Howard's memoir Slipstream."

He further praised the movie for its "delicious" pb performances by McKellen and Mirren, and noted that it "rattles on with terrific vigor and dash and the flashback sequences amusement that it's really acold much daring and ambitious that you mightiness expect."

"It's a large duel betwixt McKellen and Mirren," helium concluded.

Variety labelled The Good Liar arsenic a "delectably clever and civilised con-artist thriller".

Audiences person besides been singing praises for the movie online, with 1 Letterboxd idiosyncratic exclaiming: "Amazing movie!! Definitely urge watching it. Love the twist and the ending, it adds truthful overmuch much to the characters."

Another instrumentality gushed: "Now, THAT'S a bully thriller.

"The Good Liar is an unpredictable, tightly crafted and well-acted 'hitchcockian' thriller that had maine connected the borderline of my spot passim astir of its runtime."

Prepare yourself for immoderate shocking revelations if you determine to ticker The Good Liar this weekend.

The Good Liar is disposable to watercourse connected BBC iPlayer and Netflix.