Thelma (2024)
- warm
Warm, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Our read · Thelma (2024) (2024) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · action entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Thelma
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a fun PG-13 action comedy about a 93-year-old grandma scooting after scammers.”
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The reading.
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