Films like Palm Springs.
Palm Springs (2020) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, 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 intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a clean studio craft.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a warm emotional register.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a warm emotional register.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a warm emotional register.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
These are Palm Springs’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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