With honors

Rating: 10/10 (23 July 1999)

It's a comedy, a drama, a love story, a sex story, a story about youth > discovering the complex adult world, a story about taboos, about confusion and determination, about infidelity. It has at least one thing you can relate to personally. Yet the real genius of The Graduate has nothing to do with all of it.
The genius of this movie is that every single scene hooks you up to the next. Each one leaves you wanting to know what follows. The watchability of this movie is timeless. Every single moment could easily be the highlight in any other film. No other movie I can remember has mastered this so well. Nichols never reached again this level of perfection. The dialogs are memorable, the silent scenes are even more. The soundtrack has survived the test of time. The only "60s" thing about this movie is that it dared to take risks.
The Graduate is so different from anything ever done on film is hard to categorize. My favorite film of all time.