Films like Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back).

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) (2018) reads as Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, 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.

Big Time Adolescence (2020) poster
1. Big Time Adolescence2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mama Weed (2020) poster
2. Mama Weed2020

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wilson (2017) poster
3. Wilson2017

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Henry's Crime (2010) poster
4. Henry's Crime2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

2 + 2 (2012) poster
5. 2 + 22012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Rock the Kasbah (2015) poster
6. Rock the Kasbah2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Contromano (2018) poster
7. Contromano2018

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) poster
8. A Futile and Stupid Gesture2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Scappo a casa (2019) poster
9. Scappo a casa2019

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dude (2018) poster
10. Dude2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hill Start (2014) poster
11. Hill Start2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Paulette (2012) poster
12. Paulette2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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