Films like The Monkey King 2.
The Monkey King 2 (2016) reads as Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, 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 documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are The Monkey King 2’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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