2022 · thriller · mystery · crime
The Independent
Directed by Amy Rice1h 48m2022
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young journalist teams up with her idol, legendary journalist Nick Booker, to uncover a conspiracy that places the fate of the election, and the country, in their hands.
Our read: The Independent (2022) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded thriller · mystery · crime entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured thriller / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
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