2018 · comedy · coming-of-age
Blockers
Directed by Kay Cannon1h 42m2018
When three parents discover that each of their daughters have a pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
Our read: Blockers (2018) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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“You want raunchy prom-night chaos that still argues parents should trust their teens.”
Skip it tonight — Male nudity, butt-chugging, and virginity-obsessed jokes will mortify everyone present.
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