{"id":2437622,"date":"2026-05-29T22:18:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2437622"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T22:18:47","slug":"tuner-review-the-most-unique-nyc-crime-thriller-in-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tuner-review-the-most-unique-nyc-crime-thriller-in-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tuner&#8217; review: The most unique NYC crime thriller in a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F05%2Fnewspress-collage-it1v5hn8f-1780089050430.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261780074700\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 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In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just when you thought NYC crime thrillers had run out of new ideas, here comes \u201cTuner,\u201d a refreshingly inventive and captivating thug movie that focuses on compelling and rich characters over chases and shootouts.<\/p>\n<p>What sets director Daniel Roher\u2019s film apart from, say, last year\u2019s overpraised <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/27\/entertainment\/caught-stealing-review-austin-butler-in-a-criminal-schlep-through-downtown-nyc\/\">\u201cCaught Stealing\u201d with Austin Butler<\/a>? The main man\u2019s backstory, for one.<\/p>\n<p>Niki (Leo Woodall), a former music prodigy and current apprentice piano turner, suffers from hyperacusis, a condition that makes him extremely sensitive to loud noises. Hearing an ambulance siren, for example, will lead to excruciating pain and ringing ears. He could even pass out cold. That\u2019s no bueno for anybody who spends even a minute in New York.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Leo Woodall (seen above) stars as a uniquely gifted music expert in \u201cTuner.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Black Bear via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What Niki, who wears specialized headphones, discovers by happenstance is that the disorder that makes it extremely difficult for him to lead an ordinary life also gives him an unmatchable knack for cracking safes. How fun is that?<\/p>\n<p>Late one night, while he\u2019s working on a ritzy customer\u2019s piano when the owners aren\u2019t home, he overhears a heist in progress upstairs. Niki\u2019s goaded into opening the safe by the clumsy robbers \u2014 Uri (Lior Raz), Benny (Nissan Sakira) and Yoni (Gil Cohen) \u2014 which he does with shocking ease. From then on, he\u2019s caught up in the lucrative world of high-end thievery.<\/p>\n<p>If you can picture Woodall from \u201cThe White Lotus\u201d or as Bridget Jones\u2019 boy toy in the most recent sequel, you know he\u2019s not exactly a nerd who buries himself in books. He tends to skew \u201chunk with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact that his latest character is jacked, artistically inclined, sensitive and uniquely suited to stealing Rolexes and wads of cash makes for all sorts of enticing contradictions. And this is the young British actor at his most inviting, tortured and terrific.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Niki\u2019s work as an apprentice tuner leads him to the underworld of safe cracking. <span class=\"credit\">Black Bear via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But beyond the after-dark break-ins is the tender story of his ailing repair shop boss Harry \u2014 played with grandpa softness and deli-counter humor by Dustin Hoffman \u2014 and his wife, Marla (Tovah Feldshuh). Their thread of the film has a totally different feel from the seedy thefts.<\/p>\n<p>This side of \u201cTuner\u201d is a kind of autumn, old-world New York movie, like \u201cMoonstruck.\u201d For a while anyway. The couple have fallen on hard times and have to pay Harry\u2019s medical bills. Niki\u2019s new venture could help them out, or get them entangled in a nasty underworld.<\/p>\n<p>And his moonlighting gig will surely get in the way of his budding romance with piano student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), from whom he hides his dangerous \u2014 and perhaps deadly \u2014 secret.<\/p>\n<p>Another deviation from the typical crime movie: Roher, who has previously directed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/26\/navalny-doc-at-sundance-hits-putin-where-it-hurts\/\">excellent documentaries such as \u201cNavalny,\u201d<\/a> builds a lively world of sounds: the clicking and spinning of vault gears, the lush swell of piano, the taking apart of a baby grand, Niki\u2019s muffled perspective caused by his cans and earplugs and the punishing shriek of an airhorn.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cTuner\u201d marks Daniel Roher\u2019s (right) first narrative feature film. <span class=\"credit\">Black Bear via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That carefully calibrated cacophony energizes \u201cTuner\u201d\u2019 and makes it all the more gripping, claustrophobic and pulse-pounding.<\/p>\n<p>While there are\u00a0the expected\u00a0gunshots and\u00a0resulting\u00a0pools of\u00a0blood, the movie\u2019s most violent weapon turns out to be noise. Eventually, I began to view a smoke alarm with the same threat level as a machete. Conversely, the clatter and racket are also its most beautifully expressive paintbrush.<\/p>\n<p>Roher, in his impressive first go at a narrative film, has perfectly paired original storytelling, layered performances and borderline immersive audio. Fine-tuned, if you like.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review TUNER Running time: 109 minutes.\u00a0R (language throughout, drug use, brief nudity, some violence). In theaters. Just when you thought NYC crime thrillers had run out of new ideas, here comes \u201cTuner,\u201d a refreshingly inventive and captivating thug movie that focuses on compelling and rich characters over chases and shootouts. 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