2012 · crime · thriller · mystery
The Raven
Directed by James McTeigue1h 51m2012
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Our read: The Raven (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded crime · thriller · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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