2025 · action · thriller · mystery
Identity
Directed by Anas Khan, Akhil Paul2h 36m2025
A sketch artist and a cop work together to unravel the identity of an elusive killer using the descriptions of his face, etched into the memory of an eye-witness to the brutal crime
Our read: Identity (2025) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · thriller · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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