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Films like Slingshot.

Slingshot (2024) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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.

Voyagers (2021) poster
1. Voyagers2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Automata (2014) poster
2. Automata2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stowaway (2021) poster
3. Stowaway2021

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Renner (2025) poster
4. Renner2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Rich Flu (2024) poster
5. Rich Flu2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Singular (2025) poster
6. Singular2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Free Fall (2025) poster
7. Free Fall2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

I.S.S. (2024) poster
8. I.S.S.2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Afterlight (2025) poster
9. Afterlight2025

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Project Almanac (2015) poster
10. Project Almanac2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Time Trap (2017) poster
11. Time Trap2017

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (2014) poster
12. The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

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