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Films like Number One.

Number One (2008) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / feminist, 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.

Tanu Weds Manu (2011) poster
1. Tanu Weds Manu2011

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

Mi fido di te (2007) poster
2. Mi fido di te2007

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

Ode to the Goddess of Mercy (2004) poster
3. Ode to the Goddess of Mercy2004

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

Wild Target (2010) poster
4. Wild Target2010

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

Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) poster
5. Mrs Henderson Presents2005

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

Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean (2005) poster
6. Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean2005

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

Two Lottery Tickets (2016) poster
7. Two Lottery Tickets2016

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

Everybody's Famous! (2000) poster
8. Everybody's Famous!2000

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

Paulette (2012) poster
9. Paulette2012

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

Bad News Bears (2005) poster
10. Bad News Bears2005

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

Hush Hush Baby (2004) poster
11. Hush Hush Baby2004

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

Tamara Drewe (2010) poster
12. Tamara Drewe2010

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

These are Number One’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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