2005 · comedy · crime · music
Be Cool
Directed by F. Gary Gray1h 59m2005
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
Our read: Be Cool (2005) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- funny
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