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I Like Movies

7.1/ 10

TMDB Rating

77

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2023

Release Year

99 min

Runtime

Comedy
Drama

Overview

Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.

Keywords

high school
friendship
canada
narcissism
neurosis
male friendship
death of father
suburbia
coming of age
teen angst
film in film
grief
suburb
ontario, canada
teenage boy
male masturbation
masturbation
video store
teen comedy
woman director
suburban angst
home movies
mother son relationship
canadian youth
youth comedy
2000s
anxiety
independent film
period piece
burlington
teenage friendship
best friends

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Reviews(2)

7.5avg rating
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Brent Marchant

@Brent_Marchant

May 16, 2024

7
7/10

It’s admirable when someone has obvious enthusiasm for a personal passion and is eager to share that sentiment with others. However, it’s something else entirely when that burgeoning zeal is expressed with condescension, arrogance and disdain toward others when they share their views on the subject.

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badelf

October 15, 2025

8
8/10

Chandler Levack's "I Like Movies" is both a warm embrace and a gentle slap across the face. It's a film that understands the early 2000s video store era not just as a setting, but as a state of mind, a last gasp of analog cinephilia before streaming flattened film culture into an endless scroll. For

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