Films like Dinner in America.
Dinner in America (2020) reads as Warm, breathless, measured romance / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a chilly detachment.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a gentle temperature.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a gentle temperature.
These are Dinner in America’s neighbours — where are yours?
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