Films like Casa de Mi Padre.

Casa de Mi Padre (2012) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / western, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

Lucky Luke (2009) poster
1. Lucky Luke2009

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

Rock'n Roll (2017) poster
2. Rock'n Roll2017

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

The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (2016) poster
3. The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared2016

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

Get Duked! (2019) poster
4. Get Duked!2019

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Dumb and Dumber To (2014) (2014) poster
5. Dumb and Dumber To2014

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

Smiley Face (2007) poster
6. Smiley Face2007

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Mortal World (2018) poster
7. Mortal World2018

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Army of One (2016) poster
8. Army of One2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour; trades toward a heightened unreality.

The Villain (2009) poster
9. The Villain2009

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) poster
10. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues2013

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

Dikkenek (2006) poster
11. Dikkenek2006

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

Pop Redemption (2013) poster
12. Pop Redemption2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

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