1975 · thriller · spy
Three Days of the Condor
Directed by Sydney Pollack1h 57m1975
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
Our read: Three Days of the Condor (1975) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / spy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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“You want taut seventies paranoia where trust erodes with every scene.”
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