This not only makes it feel like it is from the 40's, but it adds to the dark and grim tone of the film. (comingsoon.net)
Critics Consensus: Clash is far from an easy watch, but the story's ripped - from - the - headlines energy more than makes up for its unrelentingly grim tone and sketchily developed characters. (rottentomatoes.com)
But just as I worried that Zhao was again leaning into the unceasingly grim tone of her last film, Brady takes an odd job training a wild horse that a neighbor recently purchased. (theatlantic.com)