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Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down

Drama · Romance · 2024

Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.

Movie details

Turtles All the Way Down

“You are not your thoughts.”

2024 Drama · Romance 1h 51m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.6 / 10

8K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

85 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

64 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.2 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Turtles All the Way Down?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Hannah Marks

Written by

Isaac Aptaker · Elizabeth Berger

Isabela Merced

Isabela Merced

Aza Holmes

Cree Cicchino

Cree Cicchino

Daisy

Judy Reyes

Judy Reyes

Gina

Felix Mallard

Felix Mallard

Davis Pickett Jr.

Maliq Johnson

Maliq Johnson

Mychal

Miles Ekhardt

Miles Ekhardt

Noah

J. Smith-Cameron

J. Smith-Cameron

Professor Abbott

Court is in session

Put Turtles All the Way Down on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Adrenaline Seeker

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.