2016 · comedy · crime
The Nice Guys — re-pass
Directed by Shane Black1h 56m2016
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Our read: The Nice Guys — re-pass (2016) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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