Arlington Road
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, steady, extreme crime / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begins to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.
Our read · Arlington Road (1999) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive crime · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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