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Netflix’s latest kick-ass movie is out today and it’s all about girl power!
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Amy Poehlerâs feminist teen movie: itâs awkward
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Netflix, 110 minutes, rated M
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Even in an era where Hollywood movies are routinely loaded with often contradictory progressive messages,
Moxie belongs to a species almost too rare to be called a sub-genre: a mainstream teen comedy-drama where feminism is explicitly the point.
To pull that off, it helps to be as widely liked as Amy Poehler, whose middle-American perkiness on camera has allowed her to get away with quite a bit, as the producer of the audacious sitcom
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The retro-titled “Moxie,” based on the 2017 novel by Jennifer Mathieu, is a likable, well-performed and admirably inclusive, if not terribly deep, comedy about teen feminism. The film, directed by Amy Poehler from a script by Tamara Chestna and Dylan Meyer, should strike a chord with young women aware or becoming aware that they’re growing up in a system still flagrantly rigged against them more than 50 years after their grandmas began burning their bras.
Vivian (Hadley Robinson) is an earnest, hard-working high school junior living with her divorced mom, Lisa (Poehler), and joined at the hip with Claudia (Lauren Tsai), her bookish longtime BFF. But a series of unsettling events a student poll that ranks Vivian “most obedient,” a baffling college essay question, and the arrival of provocative new classmate Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña) inspires the 16-year-old to imitate her mother’s riot-grrrl past and buck the school’s sexist status quo. Her move: She s