@REEL_DEAL2025-12-08 10:00 UTC
If whispered monologues were currency, The Best of Youth would settle the national debt.
2003 · Drama / Romance
The Best of Youth
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LOCKED16%
COMMUNITY LEDGER · 0 ROASTS REGISTERED
SALT SHAKER · PLATFORM AVG
LOCKED22%
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
CERTIFIED COOKED · 71–100%
An absolute cinematic disaster.
No synopsis available. Probably for the best.
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— THE DOSSIER
RELEASE DATE
2003
RUNTIME
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GENRE
Drama / Romance
PLOT SUMMARY
Synopsis withheld out of mercy.
STARRING CAST
Cast information unavailable.
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@ROW_F_REGRET2025-12-19 18:00 UTC
If The Best of Youth was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.
@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-25 05:00 UTC
The Best of Youth has the emotional range of a fridge magnet.
@SCREEN_SHADE2025-12-27 17:00 UTC
The chemistry in The Best of Youth is so flat it would fail a high-school lab report.
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r/flicks · u/ContinuityKaren🔥 3.9k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Best of Youth actually is?
Honestly, The Best of Youth would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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r/movies · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 3.8k points
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in The Best of Youth?
Look, I wanted to love The Best of Youth. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/movies · u/ScriptDoctor99🔥 1.2k points
The cinematography in The Best of Youth is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Everyone praising the The Best of Youth performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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r/boxoffice · u/PopcornPhilosopher🔥 1.7k points
[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in The Best of Youth?
Rewatched The Best of Youth last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.
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