Films like April and the Extraordinary World.
April and the Extraordinary World (2015) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured sci-fi / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
These are April and the Extraordinary World’s neighbours — where are yours?
Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.
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