I’ve found that it’s a surprisingly contentious topic which High School Musical film is the best of the trilogy.
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High School Musical 2 (2007)
Author: Dan Stalcup
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The Spectacular Now (2013)
An outstanding teen drama about a big-hearted alcoholic and his repressed girlfriend who want to save each other. Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley are terrific, and the movie is incredibly romantic, sad, and funny in the right places. There’s a single-shot walk through the woods that is the most I’ve felt like a teen falling in love since I was a teen falling in love. Aimee (Woodley) ends up more a plot tool to develop Sutter (Teller) than a character with depth, but that’s basically my only complaint. Even the loser-daddy-issues thread, which should be a trainwreck, packs a big punch.
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The Prestige (2006)
Christopher Nolan is not the type of filmmaker to make directly introspective works.
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July 2022 Recap
I’m going to try and post a recap of my movie-watching and the site’s activity once a month. No guarantee I do it every month, but I figured we’d give it a try!
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Minions (2015)
When I saw Despicable Me in 2010, I was pretty anti-Minions
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The Usual Suspects (1996)
Has there ever been a movie made more interesting by its final five minutes than The Usual Suspects?
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The Great Escape (1963)
The Great Escape remains entertaining and rousing, but it has serious tonal issues that ultimately make it more shallow fun than anything profound. But it’s great fun indeed.
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The Woman in the Window (2021)
Ever since Gone Girl took both the book world and film world by storm, we’ve seen dozens of stories in a similar mold
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Finch (2021)
There is not a single original beat in Finch.
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Scream (2022)
The 2022 film Scream — aka Scream 5, or 5cream, or Five Cream — is probably the most coherent of the Scream sequels.