2003 · thriller · crime
Phone Booth
Directed by Joel Schumacher1h 21m2003
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Our read: Phone Booth (2003) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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