Films like Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009) reads as Warm, breathless, measured sci-fi / tv-movie, 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.

Black Lightning (2009) poster
1. Black Lightning2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody (2006) poster
2. Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Invincible Iron Man (2007) poster
3. The Invincible Iron Man2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel (2011) poster
4. Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Accel2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Eragon (2006) (2006) poster
5. Eragon2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006) poster
6. Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds (2008) poster
7. Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds2008

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock (2011) poster
8. Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Thor: Tales of Asgard (2011) poster
9. Thor: Tales of Asgard2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Stronghold (2017) poster
10. The Stronghold2017

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion (2007) poster
11. Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions (2016) poster
12. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead’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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