2017 · thriller · crime · drama
Bad Genius
Directed by Nattawut Poonpiriya2h 10m2017
Lynn, a brilliant student, after helping her friends to get the grades they need, develops the idea of starting a much bigger exam-cheating business.
Our read: Bad Genius (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
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