Movies like X

“X (2022) is a United States 2020s slasher that relocates late-1970s exploitation grammar into a confined ethical trial. It stages its core conflict through practical lighting, high-contrast chiaroscuro, handheld kinetics, and grainy 16mm texture to translate interpersonal distrust into visual pressure. The film argues that formal control and period specificity can render a closed-set premise into a sustained meditation on survival and moral culpability.”