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2013 · documentary

Terms and Conditions May Apply

Directed by Cullen Hoback1h 19m2013
ElsewhereIMDb7.37kRT84%Metacritic68
  • sombre
  • bleak
  • cold
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Sombre, kinetic, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Have you ever read the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies connected to every website you visit, phone call you make, or app you use? Of course you haven’t. But those agreements allow corporations to do things with your personal information you could never even imagine. This film explores the intent hidden within these ridiculous agreements, and reveals what corporations and governments are legally taking from you and the outrageous consequences that result from clicking “I accept.”

Our read · Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes 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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ends unsettlingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

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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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