The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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In Your Dreams
Adventure · Animation · Comedy · 2025
Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.
Movie details
In Your Dreams
“The adventure of a nighttime.”
2025 Adventure · Animation · Comedy 1h 27m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
6.5 / 10
1.3K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
86 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
59 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
7.0 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.
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 In Your Dreams?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
Taste neighbourhood
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Wonder Park
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Christopher Robin
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The Star
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Onward
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In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
The House of Magic
Family · 2013
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Not everyone welcomes the new addition to the troupe as Jack Rabbit and Maggie Mouse plot to evict Thunder. The situation gets worse when the magician lands in hospital and his scheming nephew sees his chance to cash in by selling the mansion. Our young hero is determined to earn his place and so he enlists the help of some wacky magician's assistants to protect his magical new home.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Alexander Woo
Written by
Alexander Woo · Erik Benson · Stanley Moore · Rita Hsiao
Jolie Hoang-Rappaport
Stevie (voice)
Elias Janssen
Elliot (voice)
Simu Liu
Dad (voice)
Craig Robinson
Baloney Tony (voice)
Cristin Milioti
Mom / Additional Voices (voice)
Gia Carides
Nightmara (voice)
Omid Djalili
Sandman (voice)
Court is in session
Put In Your Dreams on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.