Films like The Darwin Awards.

The Darwin Awards (2007) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured adventure / comedy, inventive 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.

A Dog's Breakfast (2007) poster
1. A Dog's Breakfast2007

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) poster
2. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Just Buried (2007) poster
3. Just Buried2007

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Crush and Blush (2008) poster
4. Crush and Blush2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pop Redemption (2013) poster
5. Pop Redemption2013

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Phileine Says Sorry (2003) poster
6. Phileine Says Sorry2003

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mystery Team (2009) poster
7. Mystery Team2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Women in Trouble (2009) poster
8. Women in Trouble2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Take the 10 (2017) poster
9. Take the 102017

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Winterkartoffelknödel (2014) poster
10. Winterkartoffelknödel2014

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Phas Gaye Re Obama (2010) poster
11. Phas Gaye Re Obama2010

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Addicted to Fresno (2015) poster
12. Addicted to Fresno2015

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are The Darwin Awards’s neighbours — where are yours?

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