Films like The Men Who Stare at Goats.
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / war, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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 gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature; trades toward a running vein of humour.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature; trades toward a airy, open telling.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the gentle temperature; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
These are The Men Who Stare at Goats’s neighbours — where are yours?
Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.
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