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  Review by bruna ★ 41

  racism, sexism, making fun of disabled kids, rape jokes, homophobic jokes...this movie got it all. oh, the 80s

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  Review by Holly-Beth ★★ 8

  i want to unwatch this

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  Review by Rida ★★½ 19

  Look, even if I were to ignore the icky date rape situation, or the way the otherwise likeable geek repeatedly forces himself upon Ringwald, or the questionable treatment of a minority character with an unfunny name, it's evident that the rest of Sixteen Candles is several notches below The Breakfast Club. It's a bunch of situations strung haphazardly together, never quite coalescing into a complete narrative. Every character gets their arc, but everything feels much too patchy for the film to be a fully satisfying experience. I was never bored, however, and swooned over the detestable Jake Ryan, so I can't say that I didn't enjoy the film, but it did leave me disappointed, like, is this it? This is just going to be one of those forgettable in-between films, the sort of thing you can't summon up the passion to either love or hate. Meh.

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  Review by kirsty🌙✨ ★★ 4

  the first fifteen minutes of this: fun john hughes high-school rom-com

  the rest of the entire film: a terrifying inescapable purgatory of rape culture and misogyny and racism

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  Review by Emily ★ 3

  this sucked but i did it for my queen lara jean

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  Review by Minty ★ 1

  has aged like fine milk

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  Review by Sigfred Storstrand ★★★

  Almost as rape-y as Revenge of The Nerds
  Almost as racist as Breakfast at Tiffany's
  Nowhere near as heartfelt and beautiful as The Breakfast Club

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  Review by Michael Strenski ★ 7

  The only way this movie is effective is as a recruitment video for anti-American terrorist organizations.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★½ 3

  yikEs ?? ?

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  Review by David Lawrence ½ 3

  Had I seen this in my childhood it is possible that I would now view it with forgiveness in my heart, my vision tainted by nostalgic lenses. But viewed for the first time twenty years after its release, my clear vision reveals this as a mess with unbelievable characters and plot, not to mention the racism and acceptance of young men having their way with young women too drunk to consent. A reminder of just how horrible the mainstream Hollywood could be in the 80s.

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  Review by lucy amelia ★ 5

  this film made me profoundly uncomfortable. I expected a questionable premise but enough 80s charm and catchy lines to make it fun (let's be honest, that's most rom-coms). but no. it feels like a collection of scenes strung together with the sole intention of getting more claustrophobic with every cut. it's not just the date rape - and god is that a sentence no one should have to say. it's ted's refusal to accept no being played for tragic but cute, it's the asian character being one long painful joke, it's the way caroline has no value beyond sex, it's the five cuts to disabled characters being So Weird Ha Ha, it's the wedding?? like all of it?? what was that??? I'm so glad this torture is over???

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★★

  As true a portrait of the 1980s as there ever was. Grotesque, cruel, filthy, casually and omnidirectionally racist, self-obsessed, mostly intoxicated, and with a slight sprinkling of sentimental cheese. Later Hughes covers up the nastiness with phony class system schematics, high concept plotting or over-inflating that soft heart, making the anarchic decadence of this, his greatest film, seem either either a young man's phony darkness or the last vestige of a true self sold-out for the sake of popular success.