2018 · sci-fi · thriller · horror
Tau
Directed by Federico D'Alessandro1h 37m2018
Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Our read: Tau (2018) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive sci-fi · thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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