Misconduct
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.
Our read · Misconduct (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Misconduct
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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