Riders of Justice (2020) poster
2020 · comedy · drama · action · dark comedy

Riders of Justice

Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen1h 56m2020
ElsewhereIMDb7.576kRT96%Metacritic81TMDB7.31k
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
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Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Markus returns home to care for his daughter when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. However, when a survivor of the wreck surfaces and claims foul play, Markus suspects his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

Our read · Riders of Justice (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured 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 grief, conspiracy, and deadpan Danish absurdity in one bruised package.

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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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