Films like How to Rob a Bank.

How to Rob a Bank (2007) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Cat Run (2011) poster
1. Cat Run2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Next Day Air (2009) poster
2. Next Day Air2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kolpaçino (2009) poster
3. Kolpaçino2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Middle Men (2009) poster
4. Middle Men2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lies & Illusions (2009) poster
5. Lies & Illusions2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Drive Hard (2014) poster
6. Drive Hard2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a airy, open telling.

36 China Town (2006) poster
7. 36 China Town2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Borderline (2011) poster
8. Borderline2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ca$h (2008) poster
9. Ca$h2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a clean studio craft.

The Red Inn (2007) poster
10. The Red Inn2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dead Fish (2005) poster
11. Dead Fish2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Alibi (2006) poster
12. The Alibi2006

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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