Films like Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond.

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017) reads as Neutral, steady, gentle documentary / 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.

The Family Fang (2016) poster
1. The Family Fang2016

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

Nobody Else But You (2011) poster
2. Nobody Else But You2011

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

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2008) poster
3. I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster2008

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

Hallam Foe (2007) poster
4. Hallam Foe2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Afternoon Delight (2013) poster
5. Afternoon Delight2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Welcome to Me (2015) poster
6. Welcome to Me2015

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

Let Them All Talk (2020) poster
7. Let Them All Talk2020

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Tully (2018) poster
8. Tully2018

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

Send Me to the Clouds (2019) poster
9. Send Me to the Clouds2019

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Rules Don't Apply (2016) poster
10. Rules Don't Apply2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Submarine (2011) poster
11. Submarine2011

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

Mammuth (2010) poster
12. Mammuth2010

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

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