Films like It's Not Me, I Swear!.

It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008) reads as Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, 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.

Delirious (2007) poster
1. Delirious2007

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

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) poster
2. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters2007

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Rocket Science (2007) poster
3. Rocket Science2007

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Waiting for the Messiah (2000) poster
4. Waiting for the Messiah2000

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

Thumbsucker (2005) poster
5. Thumbsucker2005

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

Mr. Kaplan (2014) poster
6. Mr. Kaplan2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Suddenly (2002) poster
7. Suddenly2002

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

Heart Attack (2015) poster
8. Heart Attack2015

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

Elektra Luxx (2011) poster
9. Elektra Luxx2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Wackness (2008) poster
10. The Wackness2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lovely & Amazing (2001) poster
11. Lovely & Amazing2001

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

The Overnight (2015) poster
12. The Overnight2015

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

These are It's Not Me, I Swear!’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 →