Films like The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) reads as Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / adventure, 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.

The Three Stooges (2012) (2012) poster
1. The Three Stooges2012

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) poster
2. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story2007

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

9 Month Stretch (2013) poster
3. 9 Month Stretch2013

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Vexxer (2007) poster
4. The Vexxer2007

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Scoop (2006) poster
6. Scoop2006

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Crime Is Mine (2023) poster
7. The Crime Is Mine2023

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Werewolves Within (2021) poster
8. Werewolves Within2021

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

I'm So Excited! (2013) poster
9. I'm So Excited!2013

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Final Cut (2022) poster
10. Final Cut2022

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Project X (2012) poster
11. Project X2012

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Potiche (2010) poster
12. Potiche2010

Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’s neighbours — where are yours?

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