Films like Bad Santa 2.
Bad Santa 2 (2016) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, 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 cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
These are Bad Santa 2’s neighbours — where are yours?
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