2022 · comedy · mystery · thriller
Vengeance
Directed by B.J. Novak1h 48m2022
Ben, a journalist from New York City, travels to West Texas in order to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with while recording a murder mystery podcast along the way.
Our read: Vengeance (2022) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · mystery · thriller entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want a sharp Texas noir satire about podcasters mining tragedy for content.”
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