2024 · comedy · drama
Winner
Directed by Susanna Fogel1h 43m2024
Winner is a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as an NSA contractor. A fresh take on the traditional whistleblower thriller, the coming-of-age story follows an idealistic young woman persecuted for standing by her principles.
Our read: Winner (2024) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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