Plainclothes
First screened in November 2025
Director: Carmen Emmi. Cast: Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Darius Fraser, Christine Albright, Alessandra Ford Balazs. Screenplay: Carmen Emmi.

   
Photo © 2025 Magnolia Pictures / Lorton Entertainment
In Brief: Homophobic sting-operation plotline is messy, as are weird timelines, missing letter, central pairing... A shambles!

VOR:   Catches aspects of managing illicit desires in small towns, and how gayness is bound up in surveillance. But even these strengths are scattershot.

Grade: C–


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