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Films like SMS.

SMS (2014) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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.

Fake News (2021) poster
1. Fake News2021

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Halal State Security (2011) poster
2. Halal State Security2011

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Do It Like An Hombre (2017) poster
3. Do It Like An Hombre2017

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Why Stop Now? (2012) poster
4. Why Stop Now?2012

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Il ritorno del Monnezza (2005) poster
5. Il ritorno del Monnezza2005

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Gangsterdam (2017) poster
6. Gangsterdam2017

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Les Francis (2014) poster
7. Les Francis2014

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Protect and Serve (2010) poster
8. Protect and Serve2010

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

King's Ransom (2005) poster
9. King's Ransom2005

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Lucky (2020) poster
10. Lucky2020

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

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) poster
11. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard2009

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

Walter (2019) poster
12. Walter2019

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

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