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- Hulu’s Crush is a queer coming-of-age movie in which very little happens, and whose characters barely exist outside of their joking lines of dialogue. Its young actors are a delight, but even as a story of teenage crushes, it rarely captures what it feels like to be young and in love.
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By Siddhant Adlakha
Posted: Apr 28, 2022 5:00 pm
Crush debuts on Hulu on April 29, 2022.
As high school romance and coming-of-age stories go, Crush is among those with the lowest of stakes — mostly because it aims for a shockingly low bar. It’s a bare-minimum sort of movie, with few narrative and aesthetic objectives beyond letting its delightful young cast play around with some decently fun, profanity-laden banter (and letting its older cast members try to do the same, though they don’t quite hit the mark). It follows a young artist, Paige (Rowan Blanchard), who reluctantly ends up on her school’s athletics team alongside two sisters, Gabby (Isabella Ferreira) – on whom she’s had a crush for ages – and AJ (Auliʻi Cravalho), who proves to be more alluring than Paige realized, but even this description gives the movie a little too much credit, given its lack of discernible conflict (or discernible anything) for most of its runtime.
It has one, singular artistic flourish when depicting this: when her longtime crush Gabby walks into the room, Paige’s line of sight becomes filled with sprays of water colors, enveloping the space around Gabby, but this is the only thing approaching a genuine emotion — or an intense, hormonally driven teenage feeling — in the entire film. It’s the one visual trick in its bag, the one it uses the most, and yet, it doesn’t seem to use it nearly enough, given that nearly every other aspect of Crush is spoken, rather than felt.
As Paige, Blanchard proves to be an upbeat mix of awkward and sincere; Paige is a sweetheart, though few characters around her feel particularly fleshed out beyond the jokes with which they’re saddled. Her mother, Angie (Megan Mullally), is supportive of her sexuality, and sex-positive to an amusingly over-compensating degree, to the point of gifting her sex toys. However, the humor of their relationship rests on this singular trait, which also seems to define Angie even outside her dynamic with Paige — for instance, in her brief but forward fling with Paige’s track coach, Murray (Aasif Mandvi doing his best John Turturro). Similarly, Paige’s best friend, Dillon (Tyler Alvarez), is involved with a pair of running gags, one in which he and his girlfriend, Stacey (Teala Dunn), can’t keep their hands off each other, and another in which they compete for the position of Class President, but there’s little to his relationship with Paige beyond the plot-dictated role of a cinematic “best friend,” a silhouette who provides occasional feedback.
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Hulu’s Crush is a queer coming-of-age movie in which very little happens, and whose characters barely exist outside of their joking lines of dialogue. Its young actors are a delight, but even as a story of teenage crushes, it rarely captures what it feels like to be young and in love.
- Siddhant Adlakha
79% Tomatometer 38 Reviews 80% Audience Score 100+ Ratings When a young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as a chance to pursue the girl for whom she's been ...
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Apr 29, 2022 · ‘Crush’ Review: Hulu’s Teen-Centric Queer Rom-Com Plays It Too Safe. Despite a charming and inclusive cast and refreshingly progressive values, this Rowan Blanchard-starring rom-com feels...
Apr 28, 2022 · Teenage romantic comedy Crush delivers a funny, simple story that adults of any age can appreciate, no matter how old you are or who you love.
- Rick Marshall
Apr 28, 2022 · “Crush,” the debut feature of the director Sammi Cohen, is a cuddly, flimsy teenage comedy about a high-school love triangle.
A funny, charming teen romantic comedy with a decent hook and a likable cast- a film not likely to appeal to supporters of the Don't Say Gay law. Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 2, 2022 ...
