Films like This Is the End.
This Is the End (2013) reads as Warm, breathless, measured comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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 world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Reads close across all twelve axes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
These are This Is the End’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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