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  Review by I. Simon ★★★½

  “Rumors about us came and went fast and furious.”

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  Review by Alex Kittle ★★★½ 3

  Kind of all over the place but very super important for the debut of Han, a perfect character.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 3

  brain's too fried to write anything more than Asian-American Animals

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  Review by Jason Alley🏳️‍🌈🐻 ★★★★

  Before director Justin Lin got rich making four consecutive FAST AND FURIOUS sequels (TOKYO DRIFT straight through to the most recent), he debuted with this flawed but powerful teen drama.

  While it doesn't go quite as far into hard-R material, BETTER LUCK TOMORROW fits snugly alongside other "Delinquent Kids" movies (a favorite subgenre of mine) like KIDS, BULLY, and RIVER'S EDGE. The twist here, though, is that this film is about a group of upper class, A-student Asian teens, who are able to get away with stealing, cheating, and selling drugs purely because no one expects them to be getting into any trouble (least of all their parents, who are never even glimpsed).

  That's a hell of a hook, and…

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  could be easily formulaic but Lin’s obvious strengths as a filmmaker and the committed performances from everyone makes it genuinely compelling in a way that a lot of these “suburbanites going into a life of crime” movies don’t really capture. like how it subverts your expectations of the protagonist and the supporting characters as it goes along, with the main character being a lot more subtly ruthless and selfish than he comes across as, and the major unhinged one being weaker and more susceptible to guilt as the actions get bleaker and bloodier. the decision to end it in a point of stasis, with no real consequences except the lingering emptiness and hollowness inside your own heart is perfect as…

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I’ve heard of John Tucker Must Die but John Cho??? 😂😂😅😞😪

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  Review by Den_of_geeks ★★★½ 2

  “Rumors about us came fast and furious”

  Second movie in my Fast and Furious binge. Wild movie, enjoyed Hans character excited to see more of him in the next ones. 

  Very rough around the edges and obviously not made on much more than pocket change but it was charming. Very early 2000’s

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  Review by Jaime Rebanal ★★★★★ 1

  35mm print

  It's hard not to think about the clip of Roger Ebert from the Sundance Film Festival passionately defending this film when (I'm going to make an assumption here about this bit) a white audience member asked Justin Lin if he was ashamed of making a movie all about people from the Asian-American community that would end up becoming bad influences for generations to come. But I think that people who ask questions of that sort are only doing in turn is reinforcing the status quo that ends up putting those as depicted in Better Luck Tomorrow in the exact situation that they end up in. Which, obviously, as an Asian viewer is something that I respond very strongly…

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  Review by ethxn🏴‍☠️ ★★★★★

  “We didn’t agree to this! This is gonna cost you extra!”

  While it’s not the point of the film I can’t help but point out it is quite literally a Fast & Furious prequel in the sense that Sung Kang’s character Han Lue sees his debut prior to director Justin Lin’s lightning takeover of the Fast & Furious franchise with four sequels in consecutive release. A good friend of mine reminded me that Justin Lin had introduced Han as a character in a film prior to the Fast & Furious franchise and I had to jump on it immediately. 

  What I was met with was a fascinating teen drama about a clan of senior students scamming and hustling their way into some major…

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  Review by benton tarantella

  💕opening a movie like that is absolutely baller💕

  han: [does anything]
  me: wow, amazing, phenomenal, transcendent. he’s so fuckin cool

  han: [literally doing nothing]
  me: wow, amazing, phenomenal, transcendent. he’s so fuckin cool

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  Review by Jay ★★★★½ 1

  I wasn’t expecting a stylized and hyper energetic version of Burning where we explore the desire to feel understood and validated through toxically masculine behavior. Some of the spotty acting truly captures the consistent  insecurities and constant desire people feel in high school when they want to fit in, especially if you are a person of color.

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  Review by seanoconnz ★★★½ 1

  It is wild that Han from The Fast & The Furious is a character in this movie. That’s like if Quentin Tarantino made a Star Wars and one of the characters was Marsellus Wallace.