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Films like The Goob.

The Goob (2014) reads as Sombre, measured, measured coming-of-age / rural, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Hedi (2016) poster
1. Hedi2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

In Bloom (2013) poster
2. In Bloom2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Belmonte (2018) poster
3. Belmonte2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Apocalypse Child (2015) poster
4. Apocalypse Child2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Heartstone (2016) poster
5. Heartstone2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tenderness (2017) poster
6. Tenderness2017

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Yol Ayrımı (2017) poster
7. Yol Ayrımı2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sand Dollars (2014) poster
8. Sand Dollars2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Palo Alto (2014) poster
9. Palo Alto2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Last Tree (2019) poster
10. The Last Tree2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sleeping Giant (2015) poster
11. Sleeping Giant2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tanna (2015) poster
12. Tanna2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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