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Films like Best in Show.

Best in Show (2000) reads as Cosy, steady, gentle comedy, inventive 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.

A Mighty Wind (2003) poster
1. A Mighty Wind2003

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

Waiting for Guffman (1996) poster
2. Waiting for Guffman1996

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

Flirting with Disaster (1996) poster
3. Flirting with Disaster1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Zoolander (2001) poster
4. Zoolander2001

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dumb and Dumber (1994) poster
5. Dumb and Dumber1994

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

For Your Consideration (2006) (2006) poster
6. For Your Consideration2006

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

Dear Diary (1993) poster
7. Dear Diary1993

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

Talladega Nights (2006) poster
8. Talladega Nights2006

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Step Brothers (2008) (2008) poster
9. Step Brothers2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Aristocrats (2005) (2005) poster
10. The Aristocrats2005

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

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) poster
11. The 40-Year-Old Virgin2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Ed Wood (1994) (1994) poster
12. Ed Wood1994

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

These are Best in Show’s neighbours — where are yours?

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