Films like Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman (2009) 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 stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.
Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
These are Wonder Woman’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.
Pick tonight’s film by mood →