Films like Guns, Girls and Gambling.

Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured crime / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold. 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.

Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) poster
1. Pawn Shop Chronicles2013

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

Neon Flesh (2010) poster
2. Neon Flesh2010

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

Fear, Inc. (2016) poster
3. Fear, Inc.2016

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

Walk All Over Me (2007) poster
4. Walk All Over Me2007

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

Perrier's Bounty (2009) poster
5. Perrier's Bounty2009

Keeps the heightened unreality and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Breaking News in Yuba County (2021) poster
6. Breaking News in Yuba County2021

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

Shimmer Lake (2017) poster
7. Shimmer Lake2017

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

Christmas Crossfire (2020) poster
8. Christmas Crossfire2020

Keeps the heightened unreality and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Connectés (2020) poster
9. Connectés2020

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

Kill Me Three Times (2015) poster
10. Kill Me Three Times2015

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

The World is Ours (2012) poster
11. The World is Ours2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Moonwalkers (2015) poster
12. Moonwalkers2015

Keeps the heightened unreality and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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