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Films like The Good Girl.

The Good Girl (2002) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, 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.

The Anniversary Party (2001) poster
1. The Anniversary Party2001

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

Cloaca (2003) poster
2. Cloaca2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ermo (1994) poster
3. Ermo1994

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

The Weather Man (2005) poster
4. The Weather Man2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Savages (2007) poster
5. The Savages2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Offside (2001) poster
6. Offside2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Chéri (2009) poster
7. Chéri2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Bottom of the Sea (2003) poster
8. The Bottom of the Sea2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Igby Goes Down (2002) poster
9. Igby Goes Down2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000) (2000) poster
10. The Eyes of Tammy Faye2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Pope's Toilet (2007) poster
11. The Pope's Toilet2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Super Size Me (2004) poster
12. Super Size Me2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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