Films like Happy Gilmore.
Happy Gilmore (1996) reads as Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / sport, 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.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
These are Happy Gilmore’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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