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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★½ 29

  I love Star Wars but it's a tragedy that it prevented us from ever getting more movies from the George Lucas who made American Graffiti

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  Review by Mike Ginn ★★★ 3

  Pretty good for a movie about teenagers driving around saying hello to each other

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 48

  The Summer of '62. Before JFK went to Dallas. Before Vietnam. Before the Watts riots. The last summer of innocence for the first group of Baby Boomers. Our main characters in American Graffiti are these kids. They have no clue what's ahead of them. 

  The music. The lack of a musical score is replaced by an almost constant soundtrack. The songs for the most part, follow the plot. This is something we will later see in two of my favorite movies: Dazed and Confused and Everybody Wants Some. I feel a slight disconnect with the song selections. I didn't grow up with this music. You could say some of it is "square". One of our characters reflects on how the…

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★ 2

  The illusions of freedom before the collapse of a culture. Lucas is more relevant than ever.

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  Review by andrea🌹 ★★★½ 2

  my fav part was when matthew mcconaughey said 'alright alright alright'!

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  Review by kársten ★★★★ 2

  Very very very good monologue in here near the end that I loved.

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  Review by kayla ★★★★ 3

  Cars and music were so much cooler in the 60s

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  Review by Larry ★★★★★ 8

  You're the most beautiful, exciting thing I've ever seen in my life and I don't know anything about you.

  Films that sweep you away into a time long gone, and make you feel like you've always been there are a rarity. Theyre even more antiquated today, which makes the existence of films like American Graffiti worthy of being put in special little time capsules. (Or a certain Library of Congress.)

  This film may take place in the very early 60's but the laid back, nocturnal, real time hangout vibe of the film is the story of every American youth's summer years. This is your fathers story. This is your grandfathers story and his father before him. This is our story.…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½

  "This was the most perfect, dazzling creature I've ever seen!"
  "She's gone. Forget it."

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  Review by Tylot Lantern ★★★½ 3

  Possibly the greatest movie soundtrack ever.

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  Review by Cinemonster ★★★★ 4

  George Lucas' observational Altmanesque film remains far and away his best work with actors as well as his best all around film. A likable and talented cast keeps the lulls to a minimum and the soundtrack as score is outstanding. It is hard to believe that after showing an ear for dialogue in this film that Lucas went deaf so quickly.

  Editor Verna Fields and sound designer Walter Murch should get equal credit with the cast for elevating the film high above the AIP film it could have been. Their work here is as impactful as any they did for Spielberg or Coppola at this time. You can have Star Wars, I'll take American Graffiti.

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  Review by Dante Izrael ★★★★★ 2

  "there's a great big beautiful world out there. and here i sit sucking on popsicles"