Tuner has a premise you can pitch in one breath: a young piano tuner with freakishly good hearing gets pulled into cracking safes for criminals. Leo Woodall plays him with a watchful quiet, and the film is smart enough to know the hook is the ears, not the heists. Dustin Hoffman turns up as an old hand and gives the thing some weight.
What’s nice is how unforced it all is. It slides between romance and crime without straining, the kind of mid-budget adult movie that studios supposedly stopped making. It doesn’t reinvent anything, and the plot goes more or less where you expect. But it’s put together with real craft and a light touch, and sometimes a well-tuned genre picture is exactly enough.
Niki White, a gifted young piano tuner whose hearing gives him extraordinary sensitivity to sound, puts his ear to work cracking safes for a criminal crew when his mentor falls into medical debt. Stars Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman.
