The List (2023) poster
2023 · romance · comedy

The List

Directed by Melissa Miller Costanzo1h 37m2023
ElsewhereIMDb5.26k
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After her fiance sleeps with a celebrity on his free pass list, Abby Meyers, with nothing but five names and a fantasy shared by millions, sets out for Los Angeles to sleep with someone from hers.

Our read · The List (2023) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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 a breezy celebrity hall-pass revenge romcom with LA mischief.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sex

Skip it tonightYou dislike crude premise-driven romcoms about sleeping with famous men.

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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