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Films like Roger Dodger.

Roger Dodger (2002) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / drama, grounded 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 Anniversary Party (2001) poster
1. The Anniversary Party2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas (1999) poster
2. Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas1999

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Good Girl (2002) poster
3. The Good Girl2002

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

The Bottom of the Sea (2003) poster
4. The Bottom of the Sea2003

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

Cloaca (2003) poster
5. Cloaca2003

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

The Wackness (2008) poster
6. The Wackness2008

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

Ellie Parker (2005) poster
7. Ellie Parker2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Idle Running (1999) poster
8. Idle Running1999

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

The Matador (2005) poster
9. The Matador2005

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

Igby Goes Down (2002) poster
10. Igby Goes Down2002

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

Luck by Chance (2009) poster
11. Luck by Chance2009

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

Cell Phone (2003) poster
12. Cell Phone2003

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

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