Poker Face (2022) poster
2022 · thriller · crime · revenge · music

Poker Face

Directed by Russell Crowe1h 34m2022
ElsewhereIMDb5.216kRT9%Metacritic43
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatch plans of their own breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.

Our read · Poker Face (2022) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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