Isaiah Lehtinen stars as Lawrence Kweller, a Burlington, Ontario teenager, cinephile, and wannabe filmmaker with a social circle that doesn’t extend beyond his closest friend, Matt Macarchuck (Percy Hynes White). What could’ve easily been a silly one-note comedy with a pretentious, unlikeable protagonist instead becomes a pleasingly fraught and sometimes daring character piece that zeroes in on the positives and negatives of pop culture obsession with laser accuracy. Focused on a young man at a critical point in his already stunted maturation process, I Like Movies holds sometimes annoying and socially distancing idiosyncrasies with kindness and complexity, suggesting quite understandingly that even the youngest curmudgeon in training still contains multitudes. For her heartfelt and perceptive debut feature, I Like Movies, Canadian writer-director Chandler Levack looks poignantly and critically at the healing and destructive nature of cinematic obsession.
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