Films like Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured documentary, inventive 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.

The Boss of It All (2006) poster
1. The Boss of It All2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013) poster
2. Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

American Splendor (2003) poster
3. American Splendor2003

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Louise-Michel (2008) poster
4. Louise-Michel2008

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

Four Rooms (1995) poster
5. Four Rooms1995

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

8 Femmes (2002) poster
6. 8 Femmes2002

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Romance & Cigarettes (2005) poster
7. Romance & Cigarettes2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Eagle vs Shark (2007) (2007) poster
8. Eagle vs Shark2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) poster
9. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Full Frontal (2002) poster
10. Full Frontal2002

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

Bayaning Third World (1999) poster
11. Bayaning Third World1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Plato's Academy (2009) poster
12. Plato's Academy2009

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

These are Exit Through the Gift Shop’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.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →