Films like Dirty Movie.
Dirty Movie (2011) reads as Neutral, breathless, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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 intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a running vein of humour.
These are Dirty Movie’s neighbours — where are yours?
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