Films like Clean Slate.
Clean Slate (1981) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / noir, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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 cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Clean Slate’s neighbours — where are yours?
Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.
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