2022 · thriller · crime · drama
Paradise Highway
Directed by Anna Gutto1h 55m2022
A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.
Our read: Paradise Highway (2022) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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