2019 · thriller · mystery · drama
Serenity
Directed by Steven Knight1h 42m2019
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an elusive tuna while fighting his personal demons, is interrupted when someone from his past comes to him searching for help.
Our read: Serenity (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · mystery · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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