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    Ryan Gattis

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    Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by...

Raising Victor Vargas (2003)
Raising Victor Vargas (2003)
2003 | International, Comedy, Drama
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"We always recommend it to our students. We both teach high school classes a lot, and most of them aren’t aware of this movie, even though it’s the most honest and accurate depiction of that age. I guess they’re early high school or middle school, they’re about fourteen or fifteen. There’s almost a documentary feel to it. At the time, the [kids] weren’t professional actors, though a lot of them have gone on to acting. [Director] Peter Sollett did such a beautiful job. It’s so loose and warm and real and naturalistic and funny and unexpected. So much of it wasn’t rehearsed, and they let a lot of that process unfold while they made the movie. The kids sort of do their own dialogue. But I remember seeing it and thinking, “I’ve never seen it done that well before.” Usually I think teenagers are overwritten, written by much older people. Sort of reinventing."

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Moxie (2021)
Moxie (2021)
2021 | Comedy, Drama, Music
8
8.5 (2 Ratings)
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Superior Netflix high-school comedy-drama. A teenage girl is provoked into starting a feminist club at her high school and resist the double-standards she sees everywhere. (There are jokes, too.)

Sounds like another crashingly didactic piece of post-Weinstein agitprop, but director Amy Poehler is smart enough to mix a little more grit and nuance into the formula. There are still things about the movie which grate slightly - the female principal of the school is almost comically indifferent, there's a rather-too-glib piece of plotting about a rape, and the demonisation of white men is surely problematic - but this is subtle and funny and occasionally sweet and tender, and you do care about the characters and their situations. The film is insightful enough to imply that even if an injustice is brazen and obvious, it doesn't necessarily follow that the solution to it is straightforward. This is an openly feminist film with an axe to grind, but still an accessible piece of entertainment.
  
Tall Girl (2019)
Tall Girl (2019)
2019 | Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Predictable but good
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Jodi is an abnormally tall girl at 6ft 1 and a half. Because of her height she is picked on by her peers at school and meeting guys is a challenge as they feel intimidated by her height,all except her friend Jack who is smitten with her.
One day an exchange student stig joins the school and jodi falls head over heals for this guy, making it her mission to get him to notice her. Only problem is he starts dating her nemesis kimmy who tells jodi to stay away from him in a typical bitch of the school cliche. Of course jodi doesn't stay away and her and stig eventually start hitting it off. Throughout the movie I felt torn between who I wanted jodi to end up with, but at the same it was predictable what the outcome would be from the onset if the movie. I enjoyed the movie though, I thought it was cute.