Films like Poison.
Poison (2023) reads as Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, 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 unmistakable directorial hand and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a gentle temperature.

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a gentle temperature.

Keeps the chilly detachment and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the chilly detachment; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
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