Films like Ruthless People.
Ruthless People (1986) reads as Warm, breathless, measured zucker / black-comedy, inventive 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.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a airy, open telling.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Ruthless People’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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