2019 · thriller
The Wolf Hour
Directed by Alistair Banks Griffin1h 39m2019
Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx apartment during the incendiary '77 Summer of Sam. When an unseen tormentor begins exploiting June's weaknesses, her insular universe begins to unravel.
Our read: The Wolf Hour (2019) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- bleak
- cold
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