2023 · adventure · action
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Directed by James Mangold2h 35m2023
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
Our read: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded adventure · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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- intense
- epic-stakes
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