Films like Happy New Year.
Happy New Year (2014) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle action / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender. 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 stubborn streak of hope and the gentle temperature; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the warm emotional register; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the warm emotional register; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the warm emotional register; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the warm emotional register and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the running vein of humour; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the warm emotional register — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the warm emotional register; trades toward a deep human warmth.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the warm emotional register; trades toward a deep human warmth.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the gentle temperature; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the gentle temperature; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
These are Happy New Year’s neighbours — where are yours?
Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.
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