Films like The Bad Guys.
The Bad Guys (2022) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured action / animation, 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 running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a gentle temperature.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a world-sized stakes.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a gentle temperature.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour; trades toward a world-sized stakes.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are The Bad Guys’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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