Windfall Tries to Be Noir But Can’t Quite Pull It Off
At their core, noirs are about sex, sensuality, and seduction. Windfall, Netflix’s new film about the home invasion of a tech billionaire, lacks the intrigue and allure to live up to its genre.
Annie Berke is the film editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television (University of California Press, 2022).
At their core, noirs are about sex, sensuality, and seduction. Windfall, Netflix’s new film about the home invasion of a tech billionaire, lacks the intrigue and allure to live up to its genre.