Films like San Andreas.
San Andreas (2015) reads as Neutral, breathless, extreme action / thriller, 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 relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the relentless forward drive and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the relentless forward drive and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a world-sized stakes.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a stubborn streak of hope.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are San Andreas’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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