The Kid Detective

South Park did it first:

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child detective genre

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Is this a thing? I’ve never really heard of that before.

Had a chance to catch this recently.


It was surprisingly good, darker than I thought it would be but still funny. It’s definitely worth a watch, and a different character than Seth Cohen for The OC fans out there


Variety

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Adam Brody delivers a layered performance as a past-his-prime PI in debuting director Evan Morgan's sharp crime tale with shockingly dark twists.


In short, you won’t find something as young-skewing as “Harriet the Spy” or “Encyclopedia Brown” here, as “The Kid Detective” has much darker ambitions in store. Splendidly summoning film noir-esque vibes, classically ghastly bad guys and femme fatale types out of a whimsical small town full of grotesque mysteries, this bold and often surprisingly humorous film — think of it as a more mainstream version of Rian Johnson’s “Brick” — grapples with themes related to murder and abuse, as well as the existential dread of its central recluse, who fell grossly short of the promising life he thought he was meant to have in his younger days.

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