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Films like The Good Guy.

The Good Guy (2009) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, 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.

I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) poster
1. I Don't Know How She Does It2011

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

Black and White (2008) poster
2. Black and White2008

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

La vita facile (2011) poster
3. La vita facile2011

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

Something Borrowed (2011) poster
4. Something Borrowed2011

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

Meet My Friend (2010) poster
5. Meet My Friend2010

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

Standing Still (2005) poster
6. Standing Still2005

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

Strictly Sexual (2008) poster
7. Strictly Sexual2008

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

Bart Got a Room (2008) poster
8. Bart Got a Room2008

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

Bank Error in Your Favour (2009) poster
9. Bank Error in Your Favour2009

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

Meet Bill (2007) poster
10. Meet Bill2007

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

Smother (2008) poster
11. Smother2008

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

18 Years Old and Rising (2011) poster
12. 18 Years Old and Rising2011

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

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