Films like How Do You Know.

How Do You Know (2010) reads as Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, 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.

Save the Date (2012) poster
1. Save the Date2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Promotion (2008) poster
2. The Promotion2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ceremony (2010) poster
3. Ceremony2010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Beeswax (2009) poster
4. Beeswax2009

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

Acne (2008) poster
5. Acne2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Let It Rain (2008) poster
6. Let It Rain2008

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Shopgirl (2005) poster
7. Shopgirl2005

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006) poster
8. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Purple Violets (2007) poster
9. Purple Violets2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Pill (2011) poster
10. The Pill2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Madame (2017) poster
11. Madame2017

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Almost Friends (2017) poster
12. Almost Friends2017

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are How Do You Know’s neighbours — where are yours?

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