Films like Escape from the 21st Century.
Escape from the 21st Century (2024) reads as Warm, breathless, measured sci-fi / comedy, surreal 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.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a running vein of humour.
These are Escape from the 21st Century’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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