2018 · thriller · sci-fi · mystery
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Directed by David Slade1h 30m2018
In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Our read: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · sci-fi · mystery entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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