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  Review by KYK ★★★★ 1

  i just hit my 12-year NYC anniversary (whoa) and i’ve  spent too much of that time hating on roaches when actually it turns out they are musically-talented anti-landlord prison abolitionists!!! we simply must stan.

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  Review by anna nomaly ★★★★

  That silly comedy you watched dozens of times as a kid grows up to be an overtly socialist screed by way of Busby Berkeley. Bitchin' songs, bitchin' politics.

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  Review by ~findlay ★★★★ 2

  anti-gentrification MTV grease-fingered two-stroked live action cartoon zaniness, boiled in a vat beside animal fat, old pants, bathroom scum, rent bills and shoe rubber. some kind of Gen-X gig-rat looney tunes that feels like it was made by people who exclusively set their alarms for 120 Minutes and smoked pen ink to drown out the landlords knocks at the door. somethin a bit COMMIE about these bugs hmmm? unifying to help better the community and creating art as equals HMMMM? good imo

  basically completely the spiritual sequel to Freaked (one of my favourite films) and it even casts Megan Ward (from Freaked, one of my favourite films) (!!!!) so obviously i love it and obviously its embarrassing but fuck it.…

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  Review by Justin Decloux ★★★★ 6

  Is JOE'S APARTMENT the most 90s movie ever made?

  If anything, only in the 90s would a first-time filmmaker be given free rein to adapt their short film, about a guy who lives with too-helpful roaches, into a 13 million-dollar feature without any studio interference (The director is the only credited writer!)

  Like the short, it's a live-action cartoon, filled with an exhausting amount of zaniness (WIDE ANGLE LENSES!), a very funny (to me) sense of gross-out humour, and a distinct lack of pop culture references beyond cool stuff like LOVE & ROCKETS and Peter Bagge's HATE. If you hate roaches, then you should stay far away, but if you like wise-cracking horny characters voiced by Billy West, come on down!…

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★½ 1

  loved this when I was 12 because the roaches are horny, love this as an adult because the roaches are anti-landlord activists

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  Review by Lyncoln ★★★½ 1

  For many years I thought it was my head that invented this movie.

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  Review by cleansing my soul of addiction🦋 ★★★★

  how nba youngboy fans be livin

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  Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★★★ 6

  "Joe's Apartment" is a 1996 comedy directed by John Payson. Payson also directed a 1992 version of the film as a short, something that MTV was willing to expand upon as their first studio branded film. Being about eleven when this film came out, I saw the contents of the film in spatial passing. I remember the commercials, but I think it took quite some time before I actually saw the film. It's a bit of a crutch when you're the oldest sibling, as you got to forge to find out the cool things for yourself. Either way, I eventually caught this thing either through television or rental after the fact but still at somewhat at a younger age. That…

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  Review by PT99 ★★½ 2

  I wish I lost my virginity with this on.

  5/10

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  Review by Hank Bauer ★★★★ 4

  “All over New York City, people are pissing on my name!”

  One of my film teachers in high school  had a poster of this film in their classroom all 4 years I attended their classes. It’s the only way I knew about this film’s existence at all actually. It’s kind of weirdly rare on DVD though, so I never got around to watching it until today, where I found it on VHS at a goodwill. And man, this shit is insane.

  It’s like Freddy Got Fingered levels of nonsense, with cinematography that’s honestly way too good for something like this. Seriously, this shit’s camera work looks like Evil Dead at any given time, it’s nuts. On top of that, you have the…

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  Review by Lloyd

  Roaches against gentrification and the prison industrial complex.

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  Review by earl12456 ★★★★ 1

  Joe Apartment is a good movie