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2007 · comedy

The Ten

Directed by David Wain1h 36m2007
ElsewhereIMDb4.917kRT35%Metacritic50
  • warm
  • brisk
  • inventive
  • intimate
  • funny
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, measured comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

Our read · The Ten (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold 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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What watching it is actually like.

You want irreverent sketch comedy riffing on the Ten Commandments.

ends ambiguousyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips from the openattention 2/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliationdrug use

Skip it tonightUneven gross-out anthologies with dead segments frustrate 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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