Films like Bad Johnson.
Bad Johnson (2014) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. 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.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a warm emotional register.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a gentle temperature.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
These are Bad Johnson’s neighbours — where are yours?
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