2017 · crime · comedy · heist
Going in Style
Directed by Zach Braff1h 36m2017
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Our read: Going in Style (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded crime · comedy · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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