Transplant

2024 / Dir. Jason Park / 93 minutes

Described as Whiplash meets Grey’s Anatomy, Jason Park’s Transplant, which makes its debut at CIFF, certainly leans on the former for tonal inspiration. Bill Camp excels as the JK Simmons to Eric Nam’s Miles Teller, laying the psychological torment on thick as the latter is routinely pushed beyond his comfort zone, forced to act and not think despite the evident ethical hurdles he’s asked to traverse. Transplant maintains a palpable degree of suspense because of its operating room setting, where lives hang in the balance, and patients often play spectator to displays of professional dominance and riveting mental gamesmanship that we can’t help but devour with gleeful abandon.