Films like Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life.

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2016) reads as Cosy, kinetic, gentle family / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, 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.

Second Chance (2011) poster
1. Second Chance2011

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

High Society (2017) poster
2. High Society2017

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Daphne & Velma (2018) poster
3. Daphne & Velma2018

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stay Away from Me (2013) poster
4. Stay Away from Me2013

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Tribe (2018) poster
5. The Tribe2018

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Crazy Me (2013) poster
6. Crazy Me2013

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Love Wedding Repeat (2020) poster
7. Love Wedding Repeat2020

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Right Kind of Wrong (2013) poster
8. The Right Kind of Wrong2013

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Josephine (2013) poster
9. Josephine2013

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Loue-moi ! (2017) poster
10. Loue-moi !2017

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Rosaline (2022) poster
11. Rosaline2022

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mon Poussin (2017) poster
12. Mon Poussin2017

Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life’s neighbours — where are yours?

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