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Films like This Is 40.

This Is 40 (2012) reads as Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, 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.

This Is Where I Leave You (2014) (2014) poster
1. This Is Where I Leave You2014

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Your Sister's Sister (2011) poster
2. Your Sister's Sister2011

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Edge of Seventeen (2016) poster
3. The Edge of Seventeen2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

People Places Things (2015) (2015) poster
4. People Places Things2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Edge of Seventeen (re-pass) (2016) poster
5. The Edge of Seventeen (re-pass)2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Enough Said (2013) (2013) poster
6. Enough Said2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Humpday (2009) (2009) poster
7. Humpday2009

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

In a World... (2013) (2013) poster
8. In a World...2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Pistol in Each Hand (2012) poster
9. A Pistol in Each Hand2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (2017) poster
10. Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum2017

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) poster
11. Forgetting Sarah Marshall2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Find Me Guilty (2006) poster
12. Find Me Guilty2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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