2023 · comedy · romance · crime
Hit Man (Linklater)
Directed by Richard Linklater1h 56m2023
A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.
Our read: Hit Man (Linklater) (2023) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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