Films like Everything Is Illuminated.

Everything Is Illuminated (2005) reads as Neutral, measured, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender. 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.

Gia (1998) poster
1. Gia1998

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

Pieces d'identités (1998) poster
2. Pieces d'identités1998

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

Secretary (2002) poster
3. Secretary2002

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

Turn Left at the End of the World (2004) poster
4. Turn Left at the End of the World2004

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The World Is Funny (2012) poster
5. The World Is Funny2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jellyfish (2007) poster
6. Jellyfish2007

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

Dean Spanley (2002) poster
7. Dean Spanley2002

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

The Human Resources Manager (2010) poster
8. The Human Resources Manager2010

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

Nina's Tragedies (2003) poster
9. Nina's Tragedies2003

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

Thumbsucker (2005) poster
10. Thumbsucker2005

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

Of Love and Eggs (2004) poster
11. Of Love and Eggs2004

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Ten Canoes (2006) poster
12. Ten Canoes2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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