Incoming (2024) poster
2024 · comedy · coming-of-age

Incoming

Directed by Dave Chernin1h 32m2024
ElsewhereIMDb5.815kRT25%Metacritic38
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Their first week of high school. The biggest party of the year. Mistakes will be made as four teenage boys navigate a night of mayhem and debauchery.

Our read · Incoming (2024) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes 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 raunchy freshman-party comedy with zero pretense and maximum chaos.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-updrug useexplicit sexcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if teen sex, drugs, and gross-out humiliation are hard nos tonight.

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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