2022 · comedy · romance · coming-of-age
Crush
Directed by Sammi Cohen1h 33m2022
When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a long-time crush on. But she soon finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate and discovers what real love feels like.
Our read: Crush (2022) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want a breezy queer teen rom-com with art, track, and honest butterflies.”
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