The Reader Dad.

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A lot of times, if not pretty much all the time, my kids give me a hard time about reading too much about stuff.

Especially when that reading gets in the way of actually experiencing said subject matter.

Anyway...

I'd read about this little Swedish movie when it passed through the Toronto festival awhile back.

And then, yesterday, in the dead tree version of the NYT (always buy it on Friday for weekend reading, start with Ent. I when I get home and end with Krugman, usually late morning Sunday), AO Scott's lede from his review of it's wider release hit like a ton of bricks:

There is hardly a shortage of movies about rock ’n’ roll, but there are few as perfect — which is to say as ragged, as silly, as touching or as true — as “We Are the Best!,” Lukas Moodysson’s sweet and rambunctious new film. The setting is Stockholm in 1982, hardly a legendary place or moment in the annals of modern music, but that’s kind of the point. Rock ’n’ roll glory is wherever you find it, and whatever you make of it...


So, like Wes Anderson movies, I'll tell my kids to go see this one.

But not with me.

Because some things are best experienced without your parents, regardless their reading habits.

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