Turning Red (2022) poster
2022 · animation · family · comedy

Turning Red

Directed by Domee Shi1h 40m2022
ElsewhereIMDb6.9172kRT95%Metacritic83TMDB7.36k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

Our read · Turning Red (2022) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate 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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What watching it is actually like.

You want a fizzy coming-of-age comedy about puberty, family, and best friends.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if teen embarrassment humor or boy-band chaos feels too juvenile tonight.

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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