Fancy Dance

Lily Gladstone from Killers of the Flower Moon is the lead and she drives the plot. It’s a conventional missing person thriller, and the stakes are low. Filmmakers drum-up trouble for the heroes, which is fine since the “world” of the Indigenous woman straddling the line between the res and the non-res is the focus, not really the criminal underbelly plot. Nevertheless, the thriller unfolds adeptly, striking a strong balance between the genre stuff and the culture stuff.