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Movies worth talking about after the credits

Sharp dialogue, big ensembles, and endings that start an argument in the good way.

Two filled coupe glasses on a polished brass tray, set on a red velvet cinema seat.

The film is half of it. The other half is the twenty minutes afterward, so what you want is something with enough going on that two people can disagree about it.

Lights Down calls this The Socialite

You watch out loud.

So a film has a second job with you: it has to give the room something. A big cast, dialogue with some spin on it, a plot everyone can get a piece of. The credits aren't the end of your night, they're where it opens up, and a film nobody has anything to say about has missed something. Watching alone works. It just isn't the same night.

Films that sit at the center of it

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