Films like Super.
Super (2010) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme comedy / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. 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 white-knuckle intensity and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the chilly detachment and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the chilly detachment; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.
Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Super’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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