2022 · mystery · thriller · comedy
American Carnage
Directed by Diego Hallivis1h 41m2022
After a governor issues an executive order to arrest the children of undocumented immigrants, the detained youth are offered an opportunity to have their charges dropped by volunteering to provide care to the elderly. Once inside the elder care facility, however, they discover more twisted secrets than they could have possibly imagined.
Our read: American Carnage (2022) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive mystery · thriller · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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