I Like Movies (2022)

• Year: 2022
• Released: 18 Feb 2023
• Country: Canada
• Adwords: 4 wins & 10 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14913282/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_like_movies
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-like-movies
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Comedy
• Runtime: 99 min
• Writer: Chandler Levack
• Director: Chandler Levack
• Cast: Isaiah Lehtinen, Alex Ateah, Dan Beirne
• Keywords: canada, male friendship, friendship, high school, film in film, grief,

	6.9/10
	77/100
	100% – Critics

I Like Movies Storyline

Socially awkward 17-year-old cinephile, Lawrence Kweller, played by Isaiah Lehtinen, is self-absorbed and movie-obsessed. Fully convinced he can earn $90,000 to achieve his dream of attending film school at NYU, he gets a part-time job at Sequels video store. There older store manager, Alana, played by Romina D’Ugo, takes him under her wing. Meanwhile Lawrence sabotages every high school relationship he has with his narcissistic film snobbery. Faced with the impending reality of university life, Lawrence must change his ways.—KS at ClassicCoupleAcademy.com

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Canadian coming-of-age gem.

It is 2003 in Burlington, a western suburb-city of Toronto. High school senior Lawrence is enthralled by movies, and insists on only applying to NYU’s film program for post-secondary studies. This is despite the $90,000 U. S. annual cost, not affordable by his single mother on a secretary’s salary. So he gets employment in a video store, a develops a relationship with its female manager.

Socially inept, he is tightly bound to his best friend Matt, with whom the share a fondness for Saturday Night Live, but they break up as Matt finds a girl friend / girlfriend film associate, and is tired of Lawrence’s undisciplined, self-indulgent approach to film-making, as well as his possessiveness (shades of Close (2022)). Along his journey for that year, Lawrence has to grow up.

I saw this after The Fabelmans, and actually prefer this, a more concentrated film, without the playing out of the family drama. I liked the teenage lead here as well as the one in The Fabelmans. I also liked that fact that it was unabashedly Canadian.

Made me miss the video stores.

I encourage film lovers to get out to see I LIKE MOVIES while during its theatre run.

Writer and Director Chandler Laveck has written such compelling and complex human beings.

The lead protagonist Lawrence Kweller is at all times amusing, frustrating, unlikable and endearing. What a tough sell! Actor Isaiah Lehtinen has done a fantastic job of hitting the right notes every moment.

Others Romina D’Ugo, Krista Bridges and Percy Hynes-White’s solid chemistry on screen was steadfastly convincing throughout. The film is so tight with the smallest details from art direction, costuming, language, pop culture references, character motivations and development.

More drama and less comedy than I expected

It’s a Canadian comedy-drama set in 2003, primarily in Burlington, Ontario, with a few scenes at the end in Ottawa. It follows a teenager in the last year of high school obsessed with Saturday Night Live and commercial movies but is socially inept.

Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) is a pudgy, smart-mouthed teenager who attends a large high school in Burlington, Ontario (a suburb of Hamilton, Ontario, on the Toronto side). He lives with his single mom (Krista Bridges); his father’s absence is explained partway through the film. His best friend, Matt (Percy Hynes White), and Lawrence spend every Saturday night (Rejection Night) watching Saturday Night Live. They’ve agreed to produce the school’s yearend memory movie but have trouble getting started and get in trouble with their teacher (Anand Rajaram). Nevertheless, Lawrence dreams of getting into the film program at New York University, despite the cost being far beyond his family’s means.

The film follows Lawrence’s efforts to make money for university by working at the local outlet of a big-chain video store. He becomes enamored with his manager, Alana (Romina D’Ugo), who is attractive but pushing age 30. His friendship with Matt changes because of his work schedule and Matt’s decision with an accomplished female classmate (Eden Cupid), who is an experienced film editor. The film climaxes with a crisis at the video store and Lawrence’s ultimate post-secondary decision.

“I like Movies” was more drama and less comedy than I expected. The dialogue was well-done, and Lawrence’s personality was a teenager with whom you could develop a real love-hate relationship. Isaiah Lehtinen, Krista Bridges, and Romina D’Ugo were excellent. Eden Cupid was outstanding in a minor role. However, I found the film’s ending too facile to be believable and the film’s opening a bit jarring. The core storyline was good, though Lawrence was more naive about university than someone knowing the details of NYU’s film program would be.