1993 · thriller · legal · manipulation
Guilty as Sin
Directed by Sidney Lumet1h 47m1993
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.
Our read: Guilty as Sin (1993) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · legal · manipulation entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / legal, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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