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Films like Men in Black.

Men in Black (1997) reads as Warm, breathless, measured sci-fi / comedy, 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.

Project A-ko (1986) poster
1. Project A-ko1986

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Street Fighter (1994) poster
2. Street Fighter1994

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Zebraman (2004) poster
3. Zebraman2004

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Bulletproof Monk (2003) poster
4. Bulletproof Monk2003

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986) poster
5. Big Trouble in Little China1986

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Wasting Away (2007) poster
6. Wasting Away2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) poster
7. Killer Klowns from Outer Space1988

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Go Goa Gone (2013) poster
8. Go Goa Gone2013

Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dogma (1999) poster
9. Dogma1999

Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Dance of the Dead (2008) poster
10. Dance of the Dead2008

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics (2005) poster
11. Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics2005

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Yatterman (2009) poster
12. Yatterman2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Men in Black’s neighbours — where are yours?

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