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Higher Learning

Who Won the Movie?

Higher Learning The Rewatchables

Ice Cube wins the movie by majority, with John Singleton also accepted and one participant withholding a concrete winner.

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  • The opening answer names John Singleton and Ice Cube together before settling on Ice Cube.
  • Ice Cube is credited with the clearest, most relatable character and the only fully resolved arc because Fudge graduates.
  • A second participant explicitly votes for Ice Cube while saying John Singleton would also be acceptable.
  • Another participant says nobody clearly wins and considers a more abstract answer before rejecting racism as an undesirable formulation.
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Higher Learning

Apex Mountain

Higher Learning The Rewatchables

Omar Epps, Michael Rapaport, Kristy Swanson, Busta Rhymes, John Singleton, and mid-1990s college-campus movies are assessed without a single episode-wide winner.

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  • Love & Basketball is favored as Omar Epps's career apex, with The Wood and ER also considered.
  • Higher Learning is considered a plausible Michael Rapaport apex, with a later television role also recalled but not clearly named.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer is preferred as Kristy Swanson's apex.
  • PCU is favored over Higher Learning as the apex for mid-1990s college-campus culture.
  • Higher Learning is considered Busta Rhymes's likely movie apex after Belly is correctly rejected as a film he appeared in.
  • John Singleton's apex is debated between Higher Learning's career leverage and Rosewood's stronger filmmaking, while Boyz n the Hood remains his best movie to one participant.
  • Rosewood opening opposite Booty Call is cited as evidence that Singleton had less industry leverage by then.
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Higher Learning

1995

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Higher Learning

1995 film

Bill Simmons · Van Lathan · Wesley Morris

Aired February 19, 2020

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