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🎬 2025 Movie #5 | Sing Sing (2023)

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This blog is a personal journal of all the movies I watch during a year which enhances my overall viewing experience. The ratings that I give are fully based on my personal preference and enjoyment at the time of watching and I'm writing spoiler-free reviews.

I went into this movie only really knowing that it was a prison movie about inmates who did something around theater and acting which was exactly what it was. I had good hopes as I generally enjoy Prison Movies with the Shawshank Redemption as one of my all-time favorites. It gets a 7.7 on Imdb while I saw it in some list this or last year. At the same time I don't really have anything with theater and generally dislike movies that have too much of that in them. I remember watching Theater Camp last year which ended up as one of my least liked movies as it was basically 80% of the time some kids doing weird acting.

Sing Sing (6.0/10)

Spoiler-Free Movie Plot:

"Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art. The movie is supposed to be based on real-life events and many of the actors used to be real inmates."

So I guess the main theme of this movie is that art in whatever form matters and can help people in many different ways. I did really like the main actor in the film but overall purely on personal preference, this simply wasn't for me. I in a way felt it was similar to Theater Camp where most of the movie this time were some inmates trying to do some silly acting. I missed the feeling of a real prison life as it could have been just taken place inside of an acting school without that the movie being that much different. I also didn't really get the main message the movie was trying to communicate.

So I can't say I overly enjoyed Sing Sing, this is purely subjective while I get that some people really are into something like this which the ImDb score also indicates. I'm personally giving it a 6.0/10

#2025 Watched MoviesScore
#01Heretic7.8/10
#02A Different Man6.9/10
#03Look Back6.9/10
#04Caddo Lake7.5/10
#05Sing Sing6.0/10

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