Films like The Starving Games.

The Starving Games (2013) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, 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.

National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011) poster
1. National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus2011

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Hungover Games (2014) poster
2. The Hungover Games2014

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Date Movie (2006) poster
3. Date Movie2006

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stan Helsing (2009) poster
4. Stan Helsing2009

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Superfast! (2015) poster
5. Superfast!2015

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Not Very Normal Activities (2013) poster
6. Not Very Normal Activities2013

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Spanish Movie (2009) poster
7. Spanish Movie2009

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Farce of the Penguins (2006) poster
8. Farce of the Penguins2006

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Strange Wilderness (2008) poster
9. Strange Wilderness2008

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011) poster
10. Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films2011

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Hole in One (2009) poster
11. Hole in One2009

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a heightened unreality.

The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010) poster
12. The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It2010

Keeps the chilly detachment and the clean studio craft; trades toward a heightened unreality.

These are The Starving Games’s neighbours — where are yours?

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