2013 · crime · thriller · drama
Runner Runner
Directed by Brad Furman1h 31m2013
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
Our read: Runner Runner (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · thriller · drama 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
- cold
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