2013 · drama · crime · supernatural
The Place Beyond the Pines
Directed by Derek Cianfrance2h 20m2013
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Our read: The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · crime · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- twisty
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