high school
Film Inquiry got to sit down with writer‑director Megan Rico, co‑director Kade Atwood, and stars Adi Madden Cabrera and McKenna Tuckett to discuss Edie Arnold is a Loser.
Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda deconstructs the typical rhythms of the high school band movie
Queerly Ever After looks into the 2006 teen romantic-comedy The Curiosity of Chance, where a new guy tries to find his place in a new school.
Hoops should have been better. The new Netflix original instead becomes one vulgar joke after another, becoming less funny as time wears on.
The absence of parental guidance through the strategic use of antithesis allows Extracurricular to hold its characters accountable for their mistakes.
Selah and the Spades takes the traditional trappings of coming-of-age stories and views them through a filter of a calculated coldness.
In a time of so much uncertainty, a movie like Big Time Adolescence is the very definition of a “comfort watch.” And we could all use that right now.
There are some elements to admire in Knives and Skin, but the film ultimately suffers from being an under-baked slice of surrealism set in Midwestern America.
Most Likely To Succeed reaffirms the dispiriting correlation between professional success and racial and class divide, as subtly depicted by Pamela Littky.
Better Days is a mostly earnest drama that plods through bullying, academic stress, murder and tragedy, retaining a fittingly bleak and dolorous tone.
Daybreak is a show begging not to be analysed, instead designed to be consumed mindlessly in one sitting over the Halloween season.
Philophobia is a film where words are meant to have stories unto their own with connotations and nuggets of meaning buried within.
Prarthana Mohan’s coming-of-age dramedy The MisEducation of Bindu arranges Grade-A talent, on-screen and behind-the-screen.
Unfortunately, Tall Girl takes the typical high school movie beats and fails to do much with them.
It was kind of odd coming of age in the early 2010’s and seeing these ultra-fantastic teen stories, yet Palo Alto proved to be in a league all its own.