Films like The Kids Are All Right.

The Kids Are All Right (2010) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, grounded 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.

Dear Galileo (2009) poster
1. Dear Galileo2009

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

ATL (2006) poster
2. ATL2006

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sunshine Cleaning (2008) poster
3. Sunshine Cleaning2008

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tallulah (2016) poster
4. Tallulah2016

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Adventureland (2009) poster
5. Adventureland2009

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Notias (2016) poster
6. Notias2016

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hill Start (2014) poster
7. Hill Start2014

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

What's Up with Love? (2002) poster
8. What's Up with Love?2002

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Charlie Bartlett (2008) poster
9. Charlie Bartlett2008

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Love Aaj Kal (2009) poster
10. Love Aaj Kal2009

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Whatever Lola Wants (2007) poster
11. Whatever Lola Wants2007

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

A Date for Mad Mary (2016) poster
12. A Date for Mad Mary2016

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are The Kids Are All Right’s neighbours — where are yours?

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