Films like The Way Way Back.
The Way Way Back (2013) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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 heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are The Way Way Back’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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