With widespread layoffs in 2025 and a possible recession in 2026, The Ax, Donald Westlake's 1997 novel of downsizing and murder, seems newly relevant. I wrote about two adaptations, one more dynamic and funny and the other more faithful and noirish. The former, No Other Choice, opens at Seattle's SIFF Cinema Uptown Jan 1.

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