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Films like Dogma.

Dogma (1999) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007) poster
1. Bhool Bhulaiyaa2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986) poster
2. Big Trouble in Little China1986

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

Bulletproof Monk (2003) poster
3. Bulletproof Monk2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Street Fighter (1994) poster
4. Street Fighter1994

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) poster
5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit1988

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

Junior (1994) poster
6. Junior1994

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

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) poster
7. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest2006

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

Men in Black (1997) poster
8. Men in Black1997

Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Scary Movie 3 (2003) poster
9. Scary Movie 32003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) poster
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003

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

Superhero Movie (2008) poster
11. Superhero Movie2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Animal (2001) poster
12. The Animal2001

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

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