2017 · thriller · action
Detour
Directed by Christopher Smith1h 37m2017
A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
Our read: Detour (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · action entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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