Faults (2014) poster
2014 · drama · comedy · crime

Faults

Directed by Riley Stearns1h 30m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.711kRT92%Metacritic70
  • sombre
  • measured
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Sombre, measured, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.

Our read · Faults (2014) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want cult-deprogramming dread with bone-dry humor and a nasty flip.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakenbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 12attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencesuicide theme

Skip it tonightSkip if manipulation and power-shift endings leave you cold tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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