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2014 · comedy · coming-of-age

Expelled

Directed by Alex Goyette1h 25m2014
ElsewhereIMDb4.77k
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Felix is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.

Our read · Expelled (2014) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a breezy teen prank comedy with zero stakes and background-watch energy.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if cringe YouTube-era humor or thin plotting will grate on you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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