
Movies that feel like21 (2008)
If you loved 21, the closest films we have are Bad Education (2004), Spring Breakers (2013) and Pleasure (2021). All three share 21's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Wendy and Lucy (2008).
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If 21 hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: friendship
The difference: Reviewed even better

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

Both lean on warmth more than on drama

The same preoccupation in both: friendship


Gritty drama in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to thriller than 21 does

Crime built on warmth, twice over

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Gritty crime, and it commits to that
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Both sit in the same warm register
The difference: Trades the grit of 21 for an angle of its own

Drama approached the same way

Crime in the same key
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