Sharp Corner (2025) poster
2025 · thriller · comedy

Sharp Corner

Directed by Jason Buxton1h 51m2025
ElsewhereIMDb5.91kRT92%Metacritic76
  • warm
  • brisk
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, measured thriller / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.

Our read · Sharp Corner (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded thriller · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a gripping thriller about a family man obsessed with road accidents.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakensteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditygraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou want feel-good or can't stomach car crash trauma and obsession.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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