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What makes a good summer camp movie?

NPR | By Rob Schmitz,

Avery Keatley, Kira Wakeam

Published August 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM CDT

NPR staffers discuss what makes a good summer camp movie, in this week's installment of our regular series, Cineplexity.

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Rob Schmitz

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.

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