1990 · crime · corruption · police
Q & A
Directed by Sidney Lumet2h 12m1990
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.
Our read: Q & A (1990) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · corruption · police entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / corruption, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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