2020 · drama
The Banker
Directed by George Nolfi2h 0m2020
In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.
Our read: The Banker (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- inventive
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