Men, Women & Children (2014) poster
2014 · drama · comedy · coming-of-age

Men, Women & Children

Directed by Jason Reitman1h 56m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.635kRT33%Metacritic38
  • sombre
  • gentle
  • cold
  • intimate
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Sombre, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.

Our read · Men, Women & Children (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent 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 an uncomfortable internet-age family portrait worth debating.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakensteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 4/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysuicide themedrug usechild perilcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if teen sexting, porn addiction, and suicide attempts will wreck you.

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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