Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
saw this in theaters with a guy I was seeing as a spur-of-the-moment thing. honestly not a bad gay date movie
i’m not interested at all in entertaining a premise about a sociopathic young woman who holds all the cards and sexually harasses a male authority figure, it’s a narrative that validates a lot of men’s anxieties that fuel kneejerk dismissals of IRL allegations of inappropriate behavior by powerful men. Rose McGowan seems to see the script for what it is and refused to lend it credibility by resisting the urge to give her character any depth and instead leans into…
I love my comedies about the existential hell of being a teenage girl, so this was unsurprisingly satisfying. The ubiquitous nature of the film in pop culture meant I've been too directly exposed to some of the gags to really appreciate their full impact, and I've been spoiled by far more cynical films like Ghost World or Welcome to the Dollhouse to get into the more conventional approach here. Still, this is very competent nonetheless, the girls really do live up to their meanness, and I get why this has a mass appeal.