Bushwick
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →When an unknown military force invades Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood, young student Lucy and war veteran Stupe must rely on each other to escape and survive.
Our read · Bushwick (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Bushwick
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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