2016 · drama · thriller
Anesthesia
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson1h 30m2016
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Our read: Anesthesia (2016) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- intimate
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