Film Review – Tuner

Director Daniel Roher built his career as a documentarian. He broke through with his work on 2022’s “Navalny” (which won an Academy Award), and was recently on screens with “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.” He now tries his luck in the realm of drama, co-scripting “Tuner” with Robert Ramsey, bringing his interests in the lives of people to the ways of a small-scale thriller. There’s a lot of Hollywood lubrication with the material, which follows the ways of a sound-sensitive piano tuner turning to crime to make sure his loved ones are financially supported. Roher shows real verve with the endeavor and, for the first two acts, he has something very special in the film, which delivers a lot of life with characterization and tension. The helmer doesn’t land a particularly strong ending, but there’s an incredible foundation here worth admiring, and Roher clearly has the skills to handle fictional entanglements. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com