Mediocre Marks: Our Review of ‘Senior Year’

- Rated: R
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Release Date: 5/13/2022
- Directed by: Alex Hardcastle
- Starring: Angourie Rice, Justin Hartley, Rebel Wilson, Zoe Chao
One of the crazy things in Alex Hardcastle’s Senior Year is that one of the characters is dying of cancer yet she still has to perform her motherly duties. She has to assure her daughter, Stephanie Conway (Angourie Rice) that the latter is “beautiful and smart and funny”. These are qualities of a sympathetic enough for a protagonist. But she’s also veering into narcissism. This is what viewers expect for a girl who transforms herself from an awkward Australian immigrant to an American cheer captain. With her squad, she performs one of the routines she has to do in front …
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