2016 · comedy · drama
Demolition
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée1h 41m2016
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
Our read: Demolition (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
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How Demolition feels to watch.
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“You want offbeat grief comedy with Gyllenhaal dismantling life after loss.”
Skip it tonight — You find grieving widowers acting bizarrely offensive rather than cathartic.
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