Films like Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic.

Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Louis C.K.: Oh My God (2013) poster
1. Louis C.K.: Oh My God2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Louis C.K.: Chewed Up (2008) poster
2. Louis C.K.: Chewed Up2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Vulgaria (2012) poster
3. Vulgaria2012

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Beerfest (2006) poster
4. Beerfest2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Louis C.K.: Shameless (2007) poster
5. Louis C.K.: Shameless2007

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Onion Movie (2008) poster
6. The Onion Movie2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Klown (2010) poster
7. Klown2010

Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Torrente, the Stupid Arm of the Law (1998) poster
8. Torrente, the Stupid Arm of the Law1998

Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush (2009) poster
9. Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush2009

Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Let's Go to Prison (2006) poster
10. Let's Go to Prison2006

Keeps the heightened unreality and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Bad Santa (2003) poster
11. Bad Santa2003

Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Foot Fist Way (2006) poster
12. The Foot Fist Way2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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