Films like The Boss of It All.

The Boss of It All (2006) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / satire, 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.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) poster
1. Exit Through the Gift Shop2010

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Four Rooms (1995) poster
2. Four Rooms1995

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

For Your Consideration (2006) (2006) poster
3. For Your Consideration2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Louise-Michel (2008) poster
4. Louise-Michel2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Romance & Cigarettes (2005) poster
5. Romance & Cigarettes2005

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

8 Femmes (2002) poster
6. 8 Femmes2002

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

Full Frontal (2002) poster
7. Full Frontal2002

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

Eagle vs Shark (2007) (2007) poster
8. Eagle vs Shark2007

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a deep human warmth.

Aprile (1998) poster
9. Aprile1998

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a deep human warmth.

The Big Night (2012) poster
10. The Big Night2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Irma Vep (1996) (1996) poster
11. Irma Vep1996

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Henry Fool (1997) poster
12. Henry Fool1997

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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