2012 · comedy · romance · coming-of-age
Bachelorette
Directed by Leslye Headland1h 27m2012
Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.
Our read: Bachelorette (2012) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- brisk
- intimate
Watching Bachelorette tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Bachelorette feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want mean-girl wedding-eve chaos with sharp tongues and messy loyalties.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if cocaine-fueled cruelty, body jokes, or toxic friendship comedy feels too sour.
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