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Films for When Someone Who Matters Has Gone Silent

These picks were hand-selected for when left on read by someone who matters, not by algorithm, by editors. Films that meet you where you are, not where they want you to be.

Films for when someone who matters has gone quiet. Not just anyone : someone whose silence means something.

They read it. You can see that they read it. And the silence since then has been loud in a way that is completely out of proportion to what it is, which is a small thing, a digital thing, and also not a small thing at all because of who it is and what you said. The anger is easier than the alternative, which is sitting with the possibility that the silence is its own answer. You have been composing follow-ups in your head that you will not send. These films are for the time between sending something that matters and not hearing back, when the only thing to do is feel what you feel somewhere that isn't your phone.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time movie poster
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2021 · 155min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However,

It runs on the same fuel you are running on. The anger has somewhere to go inside this story, and it moves.

Runs on the same fuel

Miracle in Cell No. 7 movie poster
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2019 · 132min · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

The film does not ask you to be reasonable about it. It lets the feeling run at the temperature it is actually at.

Lets the anger move

Clouds movie poster
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2020 · 121min · ★★★☆☆ 7.1/10

Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.

Nobody is going to tell you to calm down in this one. The anger is treated as information, which is all you need right now.

No rush to the other side

Capernaum movie poster
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2018 · 126min · ★★★★☆ 7.9/10

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

It validates the feeling without resolving it too quickly. You will come out the other side with slightly less pressure, on your own schedule.

Justified

The best thing about these films is that nobody is going to tell you to calm down.

Green Book movie poster
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2018 · 130min · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Moto

It runs on the same fuel you are running on. The anger has somewhere to go inside this story, and it moves.

Runs on the same fuel

Better Days movie poster
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2019 · 135min · ★★★★☆ 8.5/10

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

The film does not ask you to be reasonable about it. It lets the feeling run at the temperature it is actually at.

Lets the anger move

Palmer movie poster
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2021 · 110min · ★★★★☆ 7.9/10

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together:and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.

Nobody is going to tell you to calm down in this one. The anger is treated as information, which is all you need right now.

No rush to the other side

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri movie poster
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2017 · 115min · ★★★★☆ 8.5/10

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Off

It validates the feeling without resolving it too quickly. You will come out the other side with slightly less pressure, on your own schedule.

Justified

Once Upon a Studio movie poster
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2023 · 9min · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.

It runs on the same fuel you are running on. The anger has somewhere to go inside this story, and it moves.

Runs on the same fuel

Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace movie poster
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2020 · 87min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.

The film does not ask you to be reasonable about it. It lets the feeling run at the temperature it is actually at.

Lets the anger move

There's Still Tomorrow movie poster
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2023 · 118min · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.

Nobody is going to tell you to calm down in this one. The anger is treated as information, which is all you need right now.

No rush to the other side

Josee, the Tiger and the Fish movie poster
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2020 · 98min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.

It validates the feeling without resolving it too quickly. You will come out the other side with slightly less pressure, on your own schedule.

Justified

The anger will move when it's ready. These let it.

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