2020 · family · sci-fi · thriller
Max Winslow and The House of Secrets
Directed by Sean Olson1h 38m2020
Five teenagers compete to win a mansion owned by entrepreneur and scientist Atticus Virtue. To win the teens must face-off against a super computer named HAVEN who controls the mansion.
Our read: Max Winslow and The House of Secrets (2020) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive family · sci-fi · thriller entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle family / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
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- gentle
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