2017 · drama · comedy · thriller
Small Crimes
Directed by E.L. Katz1h 35m2017
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.
Our read: Small Crimes (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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