Films like The Lobster.
The Lobster (2015) reads as Sombre, measured, measured comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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 cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a chilly detachment.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a heightened unreality.
These are The Lobster’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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