2024 · thriller · mystery · crime
Detained
Directed by Felipe Mucci1h 37m2024
In the dead of night, Rebecca wakes in a decrepit precinct, accused of a hit-and-run. But a deadly scuffle reveals a sinister plot. With nowhere to turn, she must uncover the truth before it consumes her. But Rebecca harbors secrets darker than they know.
Our read: Detained (2024) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · mystery · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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