Films like Kubo and the Two Strings.
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) reads as Warm, steady, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender. 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 patient, unhurried pace and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the documentary-plain realism — 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 patient, unhurried pace and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Kubo and the Two Strings’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
Pick tonight’s film by mood →