Films like This Is Where I Leave You.

This Is Where I Leave You (2014) 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.

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

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

This Is 40 (2012) (2012) poster
2. This Is 402012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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

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

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

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

The Fall of the American Empire (2018) poster
6. The Fall of the American Empire2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hustlers (2019) poster
7. Hustlers2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Blind Dates (2013) poster
8. Blind Dates2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Spanglish (2004) (2004) poster
9. Spanglish2004

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

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

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Barney's Version (2010) poster
11. Barney's Version2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hippocrates (2014) poster
12. Hippocrates2014

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

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