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Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 12.10 EDT A breezy tale of riot grrrl power passed down from mother to daughter, Amy Poehler’s return to the director’s chair (after 2019’s Wine Country) is a winningly optimistic high-school romp with timely #MeToo-era themes. Adapted by screenwriters Tamara Chestna and Dylan Meyer from the hit YA novel by Jennifer Mathieu, it may lack the depth of Booksmart, but it’s still blessed with enough post-punk energy to raise a smile, several chuckles and the occasional fist-punching cheer. Hadley Robinson is Vivian, a head-down student (“...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT: A shy 16-year-old who is fed up with sexism and toxic masculinity at her school starts publishing an anonymous feminist zine that sparks a revolution at her school. WHAT WE THOUGHT: Becoming socially aware is a journey, not a destination, and Moxie does a great job of depicting it through the lens of one girl who finds her voice. However, the film could have done a lot more to show other girls' personal strifes in the school. Moxie tells the story of Vivian (Hadley Robinson), a 16-year-old girl who just seems to be flying under the radar at her school. She and her best frien...

At one point in Netflix’s new Amy Poehler-directed movie Moxie, a group of teenage girls gather in a private room during a party to vent about the douchey boys at their school. One of them shuffles a deck of playing cards, realization dawning on her face. “You know what I just realized? The king is worth more than the queen,” she says, with the air of someone discovering the greatest secrets of the universe. “Why? The queen is the best.” That weirdly contrived wokeness bogs Moxie down, even though it’s an otherwise sweet, empowering film about one girl gaining the self-confidenc...

It's refreshing to see a teen coming of age film directly tackle political issues and feminist awakening.