2013 · crime · thriller · survival
Pawn
Directed by David A. Armstrong1h 28m2013
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.
Our read: Pawn (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · thriller · survival entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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