Films like FDR: American Badass!.
FDR: American Badass! (2012) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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 documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a airy, open telling.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a running vein of humour.
These are FDR: American Badass!’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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