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  • Dear Evan Hansen
  • Clifford

Movies greenlit by Ben Platt's dad where an older man plays a character that's obviously much younger than him who gets taken in by a surrogate family

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A list by @davechensky, inspired by @richardrushfield

  • Joker
  • To Die For

Joaquin Phoenix plays a mentally disturbed individual who becomes convinced that his fantasy of a woman being in love with him is actually real, ultimately driving him to commit a murder that results in a massive media spectacle

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  • Riders of Justice
  • Another Round

Danish movies in which Mads Mikkelsen teams up with three other middle-aged men to make a series of increasingly poor decisions based on scientifically dubious theories

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  • Army of the Dead
  • Blade Runner 2049

Films directed by auteurs that take place in a society of non-humans featuring a heartfelt, glasses-wearing David Bautista, something valuable buried underground that serves as a key plot point, and a climactic showdown in a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas

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A list by @davechensky inspired by @daanishsyed

  • Knives Out
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Murder mysteries (directed by people who've made films in a long-running space-related franchise) that take place mostly in large mansions populated by a colorful cast of rich white people in which Daniel Craig investigates Christopher Plummer's family

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Inspired by @patrickhwillems and @steven536

  • Your Sister's Sister
  • The Five-Year Engagement
  • The Jane Austen Book Club

Romantic comedies with posters in which Emily Blunt is between two or more people

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  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music

Third films in movie franchises that were launched by a classic film in the 1980s in which it's a plot point that a character has had sex with both a man and his father

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A list by @davechensky

  • Spider-Man: Homecoming
  • Justice League

Comic book movies that were released in 2017 where a playboy billionaire, whose alter-ego is a superhero, mentors a talkative young man (who's also a superhero) while sitting in a fancy car

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A list by @davechensky, inspired by @jeffgrubb

  • Pay It Forward
  • The Bucket List
  • Sophie's Choice
  • The Full Monty
  • Gaslight

Movies whose titles became widely used generic terms

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A list by @davechensky (and all you cool people on the internet)

  • Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
  • Game Night

Movies about a competition in which a freak accident causes Rachel McAdams to be comedically conflicted about the loss of human life

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Rachel McAdams is a national treasure.

A list by @davechensky, inspired by @_daanishsyed.

  • The Act of Killing
  • Cameraperson
  • Daughters of the Dust
  • Dave Chappelle's Block Party
  • Dick Tracy

30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen Before

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As listed and described by Atlantic writer and Letterboxd user David Sims www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/05/30-singular-films-watch-quarantine/611956/

  • 1917
  • True History of the Kelly Gang

Movies that are period pieces in which George MacKay discovers a crying baby in a drawer and spends a significant amount of the movie's runtime fleeing for his life

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A list by @davechensky. Thx for the inspiration, @patalo! letterboxd.com/patalo/list/movies-in-which-george-mackay-finds-a-crying/