Films like Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea.
Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2006) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, 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 stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea’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 →