Review of The Desperate Hour (2022) by Marya E. Gates for The Playlist — 14 Sep 2021
Philip Noyce is a natural choice for this kind of film. He’s great with actresses in peril and at keeping tension ramped up to eleven. But using the collective trauma of a generation of parents and children as the backdrop for a real-time thriller, whose lives have proven time and again to matter less than the right to own an AK-47, remains unconscionably distasteful.
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This review of The Desperate Hour (2022) was written by Marya E. Gates and published by The Playlist on 14 Sep 2021.
The Desperate Hour has generally received mixed reviews.
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