Psychokinesis
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Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →An ordinary guy suddenly finds he has superpowers he can use to help his spirited daughter and the people around them, but he also runs into trouble in the process.
Our read · Psychokinesis (2018) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · comedy · sci-fi entry — measured 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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The shape of Psychokinesis
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a scrappy Korean superhero dad fighting corporate bulldozers for his daughter.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if subtitled action-comedy and dad-joke superpowers feel too goofy.
The reading.
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.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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