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Film · 1967 · Drama
The Graduate
Directed by Mike Nichols
1967
★ 8.5 editorial score
A generation was told their parents were wrong and believed it: Nichols made aimlessness look cinematic, and the soundtrack put Simon and Garfunkel into every house in America.
“The world we're in here is essentially a Fifties hangover: a staid, suburban one still ruled over by The Old Folk; a place where the reason you get together with a seductively smoking alcoholic in her forties is not so much because you find her attractive but because she's the only person in the vicinity as bored as you. The result is an exercise in claustrophobia that makes Panic Room look like a western by comparison.”
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