Films like Wizards.
Wizards (1977) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured animation / fantasy, surreal 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 cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a world-sized stakes.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
These are Wizards’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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