Films like The Gods Must Be Crazy.
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) reads as Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, 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.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature; trades toward a clean studio craft.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
These are The Gods Must Be Crazy’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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