Its vivid sense of place is one of the film’s strengths.

Though Tuner doesn’t reinvent the wheel (or in this case, the piano), it makes the most of a very tight script with excellent performances, strong pacing, and a fun balance of genre tones.

What, in this age of isolation and the male loneliness epidemic, are all the sad young men up to?

The Bride! certainly isn’t ashamed of being bold and different, yet the payoff for its acts of rebelliousness doesn’t always match its ambition.

This story could be akin to a modern Western—the story of a little guy against the system.

Even if you can guess who committed the deed, the “how it happened” part will still keep audiences in suspense.

Another in Kelly Reichardt’s canon of deceptively modest stories of ordinary people set within a specific place and time.

The film wouldn’t work nearly as well without Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst and their palpable chemistry.

Director Park Chan-wook takes as his blueprint Donald E Westlake’s lean and mean bloodbath The Ax (1997) and makes the macabre and cynical tale his own.