2017 · crime · thriller
Good Time
Directed by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie1h 42m2017
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Our read: Good Time (2017) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, breathless, extreme crime / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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