2019 · fantasy · comedy · drama
Cats
Directed by Tom Hooper1h 50m2019
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
Our read: Cats (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive fantasy · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle fantasy / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
- funny
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How Cats feels to watch.
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