2024 · action · comedy · heist
Breaking and Re-entering
Directed by Wang Ding-Lin1h 49m2024
Double-crossed after a bank heist, a team of professional thieves attempts an even more challenging mission: returning the money they stole.
Our read: Breaking and Re-entering (2024) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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