Films like Shaft.
Shaft (2019) reads as Sombre, breathless, measured action / crime, inventive 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 dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Shaft’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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