2013 · thriller · crime · drama
Ugly
Directed by Anurag Kashyap2h 8m2013
When a 10-year old girl goes missing, her stepfather races against time to investigate the kidnapping. Can he find her before it's too late?
Our read: Ugly (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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