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Boy Movies #11

Boy Movies #11

The top 20 boy movies of 2022, ranked

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Dec 20, 2022
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You’re reading the final issue of Boy Movies for 2022. We’ll return with more of whatever this is in 2023, which I’m confident will be an absolutely stratospheric year for this newsletter in terms of getting acquired by an eccentric billionaire. Today’s issue is lengthier than usual, but it’s been a few months in the making and I think it’s a fun one. If you agree and are interested in helping me along in my quest to become a worldwide sensation, consider subscribing and sharing with a friend.

Please welcome to the world stage… the Boy Movies Matrix

In a recent Boy Movies board meeting, we got on the topic of what a boy movies matrix would look like. (Not to be confused with The Matrix film series, which in many ways are for girls.) Could this subsection of film possibly be simplified into four easy descriptors? After some debate, we not only came to the conclusion that it can, but also that just about every boy movie exists somewhere within the following four quadrants: hunk, loser, sp…

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