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2017 · romance · drama

Newness

Directed by Drake Doremus1h 52m2017
ElsewhereIMDb6.318kRT71%Metacritic50
  • measured
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, measured, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

Our read · Newness (2017) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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 raw millennial relationship drama about dating apps and open love.

ends warmit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 3/5feels its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnudity

Skip it tonightSkip if explicit sex scenes and jealousy spirals kill couple-viewing comfort.

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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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