Films like Ali Baba and the 7 Dwarfs.
Ali Baba and the 7 Dwarfs (2015) reads as Warm, breathless, measured adventure / action, inventive 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 running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a clean studio craft.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
These are Ali Baba and the 7 Dwarfs’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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