2019 · crime · family · mystery
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Directed by Katt Shea1h 29m2019
Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community
Our read: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded crime · family · mystery entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle crime / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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