Films like How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, 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.

Vollidiot (2007) poster
1. Vollidiot2007

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

Coco (2009) poster
2. Coco2009

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

I Give It a Year (2013) poster
3. I Give It a Year2013

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

The Antidote (2005) poster
4. The Antidote2005

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

Table for Three (2009) poster
5. Table for Three2009

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

Some Say No (2011) poster
6. Some Say No2011

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

Changing Sides (2009) poster
7. Changing Sides2009

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

The Real Life of Teachers (2013) poster
8. The Real Life of Teachers2013

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

Tonight I'll Sleep at Yours (2007) poster
9. Tonight I'll Sleep at Yours2007

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

Trap.com (2011) poster
10. Trap.com2011

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

Smother (2008) poster
11. Smother2008

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

A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014) poster
12. A Merry Friggin' Christmas2014

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

These are How to Lose Friends & Alienate People’s neighbours — where are yours?

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