Films like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) reads as Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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 bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’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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