Films like Chappie.
Chappie (2015) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Chappie’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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