The Thirteenth Floor
First screened in May 2020
Director: Josef Rusnak. Cast: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Steven Schub, Jeremy Roberts, Rif Hutton, Leon Rippy, Janet MacLachlan, Shiri Appleby, Tia Texada, Brad William Henke, Burt Bulos. Screenplay: Josef Rusnak and Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez (based on the novel Simulacron 3 by Daniel F. Galouye). Twitter Capsule:
Mystery-thriller about coded meta-realities never finds a style or grammar to serve its ideas. Cast flubs it.
VOR:②
Spate of better or at least more fully realized techno-paranoid thrillers from the same era keep this in a critical conversation. Nothing else does.
