Films like Splash.
Splash (1984) reads as Cosy, kinetic, gentle romantic-comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender. 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 stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the deep human warmth; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
These are Splash’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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