Films like Stargate: The Ark of Truth.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008) reads as Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, 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.

Stargate: Continuum (2008) poster
1. Stargate: Continuum2008

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010) poster
2. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths2010

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ra.One (2011) poster
3. Ra.One2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Superman: Unbound (2013) poster
4. Superman: Unbound2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows (2005) poster
5. Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows2005

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Invincible Iron Man (2007) poster
6. The Invincible Iron Man2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Superman vs. The Elite (2012) poster
7. Superman vs. The Elite2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (2016) poster
8. Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Crusade in Jeans (2006) poster
9. Crusade in Jeans2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Battle for Terra (2007) poster
10. Battle for Terra2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Throne of Elves (2016) poster
11. Throne of Elves2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006) poster
12. Ultimate Avengers 22006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Stargate: The Ark of Truth’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.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →