Tuner - Review
Oct 9, 2025
1 min read
Updated: Aug 24
An Eligible Virtuoso.
Review written by Jack Aling
Tuner is directed by Daniel Roher and written by Daniel Roher and Robert Ramsey.
Starring Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, Havana Rose Liu & Lior Raz.
Niki White, apprentice to a New York City piano tuner, discovers a talent for safe-cracking when his hyperacusis-sharpened hearing allows him to open his mentor's forgotten safe. He begins working with a trio of Israeli thieves while secretly using the money to pay his mentor's hospital bills.
Tuner was not even on my radar but came out of nowhere to be a genuine surprise film at this year's London Film Festival.
Leo Woodall shines as a piano tuner turned safe cracker with hyperacusis in an engaging performance, leading with ease even with giants like Dustin Hoffman in the supporting cast.
A welcome dose of energy thanks to its fast pace and editing, the result is a blend of Whiplash meets Baby Driver. A fantastic first narrative feature from Navalny director Daniel Roher.
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