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Films like Push.

Push (2009) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender. 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.

RoboCop (2014) poster
1. RoboCop2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Superman Returns (2006) poster
2. Superman Returns2006

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Babylon A.D. (2008) poster
3. Babylon A.D.2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Skyline (2010) poster
4. Skyline2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023) poster
5. Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Battleship (2012) poster
6. Battleship2012

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) poster
7. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) poster
8. Solo: A Star Wars Story2018

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Ender's Game (2013) poster
9. Ender's Game2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Knowing (2009) poster
10. Knowing2009

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Flu (2013) poster
11. The Flu2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) poster
12. X-Men: Days of Future Past2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a chilly detachment.

These are Push’s neighbours — where are yours?

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