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2021 · history · drama · political

Worth

Directed by Sara Colangelo1h 58m2021
ElsewhereIMDb6.820kRT81%Metacritic67
  • sombre
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds and, in doing so, discovers what life is worth.

Our read · Worth (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded history · drama · political 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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You want a dignified 9/11 drama about what money cannot fix.

ends upliftingit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou are not emotionally ready for compensation-fund grief 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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