Hadley Robinson and Nico Haraga in Amy Poehler s Moxie
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Dir: Amy Poehler. Cast: Hadley Robinson, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Lauren Tsai, Nico Hiraga, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Marcia Gay Harden, Sabrina Haskett, Sydney Park, Anjelica Washington, Josie Totah, Amy Poehler, Ike Barinholtz. 15 cert, 110 mins
At the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were both sporting an unconventional red-carpet look: a small cluster of hearts and stars, scrawled on their hands in black ink. These symbols, it transpires, are a secret sign of female solidarity in Moxie, a coming-of-age drama directed by Saturday Night Live veteran Poehler, about a feminist uprising at an American high school. Hashtag activism, meet viral marketing! These days you’re looking more and more alike.
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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
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Sweet, clear-eyed Gen-Z female empowerment story manages to be just memorable enough through its charming ensemble and refreshingly inclusive political values.
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Director: Amy Poehler
With: Hadley Robinson, Lauren Tsai, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nico Hiraga, Sydney Park, Josephine Langford, Clark Gregg, Josie Totah, Alycia Pascual-Peña, Anjelika Washington, Charlie Hall, Sabrina Haskett, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Poehler, Marcia Gay Harden.
Running time: Running time: 111 MIN.