Piled Higher and Deeper

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tom k As a longtime fan of PhD comics and an eternal graduate student myself, this film hits the nail on the head! For those not in academia though, it might be a little meh. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is entertaining and funny, but it's a bit of gallows humor because the issues (NOT problems!) it addresses are very real and hit home to me as a graduate student. The movie tackles the major downsides of graduate school - frustrations and seeming triviality of research, excessive grading, dictatorial advisers, lack of an ability to have hobbies or a personal life - in an exaggerated manner, yes, but nonetheless it's close enough to reality to feel unnervingly relevant to my own graduate student life. It's simultaneously depressing and comforting to know that every other graduate student is suffering through these problems - excuse me, issues - along with me. The movie moves along briskly and finishes in a concise 65 minutes. My main complaint with this movie is the campy acting; the actors read their lines like, well, amateurs, using excessively dramatic intonation. I don't know if that was intentionally done to make the movie seem more realistic somehow, or just a byproduct of the fact that for the actors playing the four main graduate student characters, this was their first (or possibly second) acting credit. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is entertaining and funny, but it's a bit of gallows humor because the issues (NOT problems!) it addresses are very real and hit home to me as a graduate student. The movie tackles the major downsides of graduate school - frustrations and seeming triviality of research, excessive grading, dictatorial advisers, lack of an ability to have hobbies or a personal life - in an exaggerated manner, yes, but nonetheless it's close enough to reality to feel unnervingly relevant to my own graduate student life. It's simultaneously depressing and comforting to know that every other graduate student is suffering through these problems - excuse me, issues - along with me. The movie moves along briskly and finishes in a concise 65 minutes. My main complaint with this movie is the campy acting; the actors read their lines like, well, amateurs, using excessively dramatic intonation. I don't know if that was intentionally done to make the movie seem more realistic somehow, or just a byproduct of the fact that for the actors playing the four main graduate student characters, this was their first (or possibly second) acting credit. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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