Films like Showing Up.
Showing Up (2023) reads as Neutral, slow-burn, gentle 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.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a airy, open telling.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a airy, open telling.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a airy, open telling.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a running vein of humour.
These are Showing Up’s neighbours — where are yours?
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