Films like Lying and Stealing.

Lying and Stealing (2019) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, 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.

Buffaloed (2020) poster
1. Buffaloed2020

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

Finding Steve McQueen (2019) poster
2. Finding Steve McQueen2019

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Kid Cannabis (2014) poster
3. Kid Cannabis2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

One for the Money (2012) poster
4. One for the Money2012

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

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) poster
5. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Baked in Brooklyn (2016) poster
6. Baked in Brooklyn2016

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

Stockholm (2019) poster
7. Stockholm2019

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

CBGB (2013) poster
8. CBGB2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Comeback Trail (2020) poster
9. The Comeback Trail2020

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Gringo (2018) poster
10. Gringo2018

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Drive Hard (2014) poster
11. Drive Hard2014

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

QT8: The First Eight (2019) poster
12. QT8: The First Eight2019

Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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