Films like The Art of Self-Defense.
The Art of Self-Defense (2019) reads as Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
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