Films like The Marvels.
The Marvels (2023) reads as Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, 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 world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the relentless forward drive — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are The Marvels’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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