FilmsHot FuzzLike this

Films like Hot Fuzz.

Hot Fuzz (2007) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / action, grounded 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.

Shaun of the Dead (2004) poster
1. Shaun of the Dead2004

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bhagam Bhag (2006) poster
2. Bhagam Bhag2006

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Golmaal Returns (2008) poster
3. Golmaal Returns2008

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Revenge (2002) poster
4. Revenge2002

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tropic Thunder (2008) poster
5. Tropic Thunder2008

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a clean studio craft.

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) poster
6. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies2006

Keeps the running vein of humour and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a airy, open telling.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) poster
7. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared2013

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

The Vexxer (2007) poster
8. The Vexxer2007

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

21 Jump Street (2012) poster
9. 21 Jump Street2012

Keeps the running vein of humour and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Bol Bachchan (2012) poster
10. Bol Bachchan2012

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mascarades (2008) poster
11. Mascarades2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a airy, open telling.

The Three Stooges (2012) (2012) poster
12. The Three Stooges2012

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a airy, open telling.

These are Hot Fuzz’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 →