Samaritan
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was reported dead 25 years ago. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.
Our read · Samaritan (2022) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · crime · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Samaritan
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a gritty neighborhood superhero yarn with Stallone and a determined kid.”
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The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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