2023 · comedy · sci-fi · drama
Jules
Directed by Marc Turtletaub1h 27m2023
A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.
Our read: Jules (2023) reads as a cosy, steady, inventive comedy · sci-fi · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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How Jules feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a gentle alien fable about loneliness, memory, and unlikely late-life friendship.”
Skip it tonight — You need propulsive plot; this one wanders like a kind small-town afternoon.
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