Films like And Everything Is Going Fine.

And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured documentary / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

The Weather Man (2005) poster
1. The Weather Man2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Wackness (2008) poster
2. The Wackness2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Venus (2006) poster
3. Venus2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Cloaca (2003) poster
4. Cloaca2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Defendor (2009) poster
5. Defendor2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sneakers (2011) poster
6. Sneakers2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013) poster
7. The Geographer Drank His Globe Away2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Accidents Happen (2009) poster
8. Accidents Happen2009

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Damsel (2018) poster
9. Damsel2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Nina's Tragedies (2003) poster
10. Nina's Tragedies2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Savages (2007) poster
11. The Savages2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Good Girl (2002) poster
12. The Good Girl2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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