2020 · comedy · crime · thriller
Pixie
Directed by Barnaby Thompson1h 33m2020
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
Our read: Pixie (2020) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded comedy · crime · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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