What is it? - 2009 romcom/drama film directed by Marc Webb, who would go on to direct The Amazing Spider-Man movies (which, despite the titles, aren't very good).
(500) Days of Summer is quintessentially late 00s/early 10s indie. If that sentence instantly repulses you, this is absolutely not the movie for you. The central gimmick of the film is that it starts at the end of a romantic relationship between the two leads, Tom and Summer, which, as you probably guessed, lasted 500 days. Tom tells the story from the beginning, trying to figure out where it all went wrong. This is where the movie essentially acts as a Rorschach test, as you can instantly tell what kind of person someone is based on whether they side with Tom or Summer, though true enlightened ones realize that both are at fault and were incompatible from the start. My favorite scene is when the two of them look at the Los Angeles skyline and Tom points out all the skyscrapers while Summer most notices the parking lots, a brilliant piece of writing instantly showing the division between the two - romantic idealism vs pragmatism. Despite all its bad indie-isms, I quite like the movie overall, great time with other people, though that ending is eyerollingly silly. The film this is often paired with is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which I would argue is stronger.
SCORE - 6.8/10 - Light recommendation
LENGTH - 95 minutes