Films like Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured action / sci-fi, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Rise of the Planet of the Apes’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.
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