2025 · action · thriller · survival
Cleaner
Directed by Martin Campbell1h 37m2025
When a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala, seizing 300 hostages, an ex-soldier turned window cleaner suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building must save those trapped inside, including her older brother.
Our read: Cleaner (2025) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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