7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Thriller, Comedy • 2025 • 111 min
Sharp Corner (2025)
Sharp Corner (2025)
Overview
Sharp Corner is a 2025 thriller directed by Jason Buxton. Ben Foster plays Josh, a family man who relocates to a rural home and becomes fixated on the deadly car accidents occurring at the sharp corner outside. Cobie Smulders portrays his wife Rachel, with Gavin Drea in a supporting role. The film adapts a 2012 short story by Russell Wangersky.
Starring Cast
Cobie Smulders • Ben Foster • Gavin Drea
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.1
Overview
Sharp Corner is a 2025 thriller directed by Jason Buxton. Ben Foster plays Josh, a family man who relocates to a rural home and becomes fixated on the deadly car accidents occurring at the sharp corner outside. Cobie Smulders portrays his wife Rachel, with Gavin Drea in a supporting role. The film adapts a 2012 short story by Russell Wangersky.
Starring Cast
Cobie Smulders • Ben Foster • Gavin Drea
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High
The film's central portrayal of a father's obsessive quest for validation amid uncontrollable chaos critiques contemporary masculinity and its societal tolls. This focus on the dangers of entitled emotional avoidance determines the left-leaning bias.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
Main characters are cast with white actors in a traditional setup, with limited diversity in supporting roles. The narrative subtly critiques male obsession and societal expectations without centering explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: High
The film depicts a traditional nuclear family structure crumbling under the father's obsessive focus on external dangers, straining marriage and parenting roles. This portrayal questions the resilience of conventional family norms, framing potential separation as a protective measure for the mother and child.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Medium
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on family dynamics, obsession, and psychological decline in a suburban setting.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film contains no transgender characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a suburban family's unraveling due to the father's fixation on preventing accidents, offering no portrayal of transsexual identity to assess.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The adaptation retains the short story's male protagonist and female spouse with actors of corresponding genders. The film's inclusion of a young son introduces an original character without prior canonical gender.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Sharp Corner adapts a short story with original characters lacking any specified or implied racial depictions in the source material. The film's white cast portrays them without conflicting with prior canon.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.9
5.8
Critic Ratings
9.2
7.6
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