Clarissa (2026) Review – A Divided Story With Uneven Appeal
Clarissa reminds us that splitting a character’s story between youth and modern times doesn’t always benefit the more established version.
Young Adult
In the Young Adult tag, you’ll find coming-of-age stories and productions featuring those in their late teens through twenties getting their lives together.
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Falling (2026) – When A Dreamer and a Realist Fall for an Opportunist
Two young men, a writer who is a romantic and a dreamer, and a lawyer who is a realist and a womanizer, fall for a woman who could change their lives around, who barely likes to stick around anywhere.
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High Voltage (2026) – You Can Taze Them Then Replace Them
High Voltage is an observational film where one girl learns the dos and don’ts to get the girl.
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Carrie: Season 1 Review (Spoiler Free)
The iconic moment everyone knows from Carrie casts a shadow that, even with eight episodes, the show couldn’t escape, and in trying to set up future seasons, it doesn’t make enough of an effort to.
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Charlie Harper (2026) – Review and Summary
Charlie Harper utterly avoids routine romance plotlines and pursues a complicated, but far from dramatic romance, where there isn’t picking a side but just wanting both to end up happy.
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You+Me – Against The World (2026) – Review and Summary
You+Me – Against The World avoids complicating its characters or presenting a standout story, and just delivers something to hold you over until something better comes along.
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Maya and Samar (2026) – Review and Summary
Maya and Samar knows what it wants to say and how it wants it depicted. However, there is a need to question whether its depiction of sex helps, hurts, or, to the extent it is used, was necessary.
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Finding Emily (2026) – Review and Summary
Finding Emily embraces the cringe, anxiety, audacity, and perhaps naivety of being young (early 20s) and thinking you may have found the one after an enjoyable chance encounter.
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The Wrong Girls (2026) – Review and Summary
While The Wrong Girls is very much a stoner comedy, the comedy part is HIGHLY subjective.
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One Night Only (2026) – Review and Summary
One Night Only may sell itself as a romantic comedy, but it struggles due to the situation of its male lead and the limits on sex in their version of American society.
