Films like Away.
Away (2019) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle animation / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, 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 cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a world-sized stakes.
These are Away’s neighbours — where are yours?
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