2023 · sci-fi · comedy · drama
Linoleum
Directed by Colin West1h 41m2023
When the host of a failing children’s science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.
Our read: Linoleum (2023) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive sci-fi · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
- twisty
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