Films like Airplane!.
Airplane! (1980) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, 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.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Airplane!’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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