2005 · crime · thriller · revenge
The Interpreter
Directed by Sydney Pollack2h 8m2005
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Our read: The Interpreter (2005) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · thriller · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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