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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

7/10/2021

The King of Staten Island (2020)

Aimless guy in his mid-20s has a lot of changes in his life all at once: his sister leaves for college, his mother embarks on a new relationship, his kinda girlfriend has had enough, and his friends all get caught during a botched robbery attempt and go down for a few months. Despite his best efforts to avoid it, he has to grow up quick. With some help from the unlikeliest of places, he does just that.

Pete Davidson has never been a great actor on Saturday Night Live, but he breaks out here. Maybe it's the semi-autobiographical nature of this film, but he is truly special in the role. I was rooting for him.

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