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  Funny Pages 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2023 2

  Funny Pages works to prove that teenagehood is messy and filled with passionate misdirection. And it is successful.

  Watching this movie, I couldn't help but be reminded of The Squid and the Whale, a movie that the director, Owen Kline, starred in as a child.

  The most striking similarity is that in both movies, none of the characters are particularly easy to like. Both ditching the 'good vs bad' narrative, they form an interesting outlook at humans and their vulnerability…

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  Empire Records 1995

  ★★★ Watched 04 Dec 2022 8

  Amazing that a failing record store can afford to roster so many people on to do absolutely nothing productive. I would probably join Warren in applying.

  It's a fun movie but was clearly created to communicate most with a white teenage audience, under the guise of capturing a universal teenage experience.

  There were funny & enjoyable moments making it worth watching but its main selling point is that it makes a simple life look desirable. This is apparent because of most…

Popular reviews

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  All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Aug 2022 4

  It is always difficult to praise a movie thats aim seems to be for audiences to hate it.

  Contrary to its title, this movie isn't all about Lily Chou-chou, and only uses the fictional artist to set the stage for a discussion about teenage boyhood and its relation to girls/women. The part that Lily performs in this movie is only given purpose from the way that her predominantly male audience treats her; she does not define herself but is defined…

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  His Motorbike, Her Island 1986

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jul 2021 17

  Manic pixie dream girls and motorbikes!

  Firstly, I'll address the fact that technically, this is a well-made film. It has great cinematography and understandstands the pace it needs to be at to effectively get the story across. It's enjoyable in its aesthetic and is made wittily.

  But looking beyond the way it is presented, we must actually acknowledge what it is that is being presented. The film absorbs itself in a blatant lack of care for its female characters so…