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2020 · drama · comedy

Rams

Directed by Jeremy Sims1h 59m2020
ElsewhereIMDb6.54kRT91%Metacritic62
  • warm
  • gentle
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Warm, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley—so the brothers must work together to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together.

Our read · Rams (2020) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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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You want an Australian dramedy about estranged brothers saving their sheep and family.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upanimal harm

Skip it tonightSkip if scenes of animal disease and mass culling will upset you.

DNA · twelve axes

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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.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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