Films like Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) reads as Sombre, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Breach (2007) poster
1. Breach2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Nothing but the Truth (2008) poster
2. Nothing but the Truth2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Root of All Evil? (2006) poster
3. Root of All Evil?2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Conspirator (2011) poster
4. The Conspirator2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Spy(ies) (2009) poster
5. Spy(ies)2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Shanghai (2010) poster
6. Shanghai2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Fed Up (2014) poster
7. Fed Up2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Betting on Zero (2016) poster
8. Betting on Zero2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) poster
9. Who Killed the Electric Car?2006

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Food, Inc. (2008) (2008) poster
10. Food, Inc.2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) poster
11. Good Night, and Good Luck.2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) poster
12. The Light Bulb Conspiracy2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price’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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