2026 · action · crime · thriller
Normal
Directed by Ben Wheatley1h 31m2026
An unassuming substitute sheriff with a troubled past responds to a bank robbery in a small, sleepy town and unknowingly uncovers something far more explosive.
Our read: Normal (2026) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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