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Films like Maximum Ride.

Maximum Ride (2016) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, 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 Legend of La Llorona (2011) poster
1. The Legend of La Llorona2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011) poster
2. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ragnarok (2013) poster
3. Ragnarok2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017) poster
4. Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire2017

Keeps the clean studio craft and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Robot Overlords (2015) poster
5. Robot Overlords2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022) poster
6. Green Lantern: Beware My Power2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Beyond Loch Ness (2008) poster
7. Beyond Loch Ness2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

How I Became a Superhero (2020) poster
8. How I Became a Superhero2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Lost Future (2010) poster
9. The Lost Future2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Game Therapy (2015) poster
10. Game Therapy2015

Keeps the clean studio craft and the airy, open telling; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Max Steel (2016) poster
11. Max Steel2016

Keeps the clean studio craft and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

American Hero (2015) poster
12. American Hero2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the clean studio craft; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

These are Maximum Ride’s neighbours — where are yours?

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