2017 · drama · history · disaster
Only the Brave
Directed by Joseph Kosinski2h 13m2017
Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Our read: Only the Brave (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · history · disaster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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