2024 · crime · comedy · heist
The Instigators
Directed by Doug Liman1h 42m2024
Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.
Our read: The Instigators (2024) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded crime · comedy · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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