R | 2h 7min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 29 January 2021 (USA) This review of “The Little Things” checks a couple of boxes. Firstly, it’s our first review since the beginning of the pandemic to more or less coincide with the movie’s release date. Secondly, it’s a classic January movie, meaning it’s mildly meh, and you might want to miss it. It does feature a decent Denzel Washington performance, but the rest of the movie functions like a pair of ill-fitting trousers that he has to keep hiking up, so as to avoid having to walk around with them down around his ankles. Old Cop Mentors Young Cop Director John Lee Hancock gives us a thriller with the hoary plot of Joe Deacon (Washington), a banished homicide detective returning to surreptitiously mentor a younger detective (Rami Malek) and help him finish what he, “Deke,” started. When Deke was on …