2021 · action · thriller
Bartkowiak
Directed by Daniel Markowicz1h 31m2021
After his brother dies in a car crash, a disgraced MMA fighter takes over the family nightclub — and soon learns his sibling's death wasn’t an accident.
Our read: Bartkowiak (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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