Films like Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films.

Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. 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.

Date Movie (2006) poster
1. Date Movie2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Not Very Normal Activities (2013) poster
2. Not Very Normal Activities2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011) poster
3. National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus2011

Keeps the chilly detachment and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010) poster
4. The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It2010

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Farce of the Penguins (2006) poster
5. Farce of the Penguins2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Strange Wilderness (2008) poster
6. Strange Wilderness2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.

The Starving Games (2013) poster
7. The Starving Games2013

Keeps the chilly detachment and the running vein of humour; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Spanish Movie (2009) poster
8. Spanish Movie2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Dirty Love (2005) poster
9. Dirty Love2005

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.

InAPPropriate Comedy (2013) poster
10. InAPPropriate Comedy2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2013) poster
11. 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With the Devil Inside the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 (2014) poster
12. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .52014

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the chilly detachment; trades toward a heightened unreality.

These are Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films’s neighbours — where are yours?

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