2019 · drama · thriller · political
Motherless Brooklyn
Directed by Edward Norton2h 25m2019
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
Our read: Motherless Brooklyn (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · thriller · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- twisty
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