2017 · comedy
Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie
Directed by Jeff Garlin1h 21m2017
LA homicide detective Gene Handsome's knack for solving mysteries is matched only by his inability to make sense of his own problems.
Our read: Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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