Films like Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie.

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / animation, surreal 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.

24 (2016) poster
1. 242016

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

L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (2016) poster
2. L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties2016

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

The Inhabited Island (2009) poster
3. The Inhabited Island2009

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

Coma (2020) poster
4. Coma2020

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

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013) poster
5. Space Pirate Captain Harlock2013

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

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016) poster
6. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV2016

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

Final Fantasy VII: Last Order (2005) poster
7. Final Fantasy VII: Last Order2005

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

A Rough Draft (2018) poster
8. A Rough Draft2018

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

The Four (2012) poster
9. The Four2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Technotise: Edit and I (2009) poster
10. Technotise: Edit and I2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

009 Re:Cyborg (2012) poster
11. 009 Re:Cyborg2012

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust (2012) poster
12. Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust2012

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

These are Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie’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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