2022 · thriller · romance
All the Old Knives
Directed by Janus Metz1h 42m2022
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.
Our read: All the Old Knives (2022) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- bleak
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