Awkwardly earnest, though not without its bright spots.
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Amy Poehler directs newcomers Hadley Robinson and Nico Hiraga in a Netflix coming-of-age tale inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement.
The premise of Netflix s new teen drama
Moxie of a present-day 11th-grader taking inspiration from her mom’s Riot Grrrl memorabilia to make her school more hospitable for girls through an anonymous feminist zine is at once wholly plausible and a transparent Gen X fantasy of its cultural relevance to Gen Z.
Teenagers today have ready access to more female-forward content and analysis on issues from the relatively trivial to the supremely grave, via any number of publications and platforms than any of them could consume in a lifetime. A smarter movie might have asked why that thriving, glossy, youth-oriented pop-feminist industrial complex (that likely powered the
“If you keep your head down, he’ll move on and bother somebody else,” 16-year-old Vivian advises the new girl at school who has been bullied by a particularly odious classmate. “Thanks for the advice,” comes the response, “but I’m going to keep my head up. High.” That brief exchange is enough to ignite Vivian’s feminist awakening in “Moxie,” a sincere if ultimately empty coming-of-ager .
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