Overview
- Adapted from NB Mager’s short, the film follows a student who mounts a musical reenactment of a decade-old school shooting at her high school.
- Festival-day reviews from outlets including Collider and FandomWire praise Alyssa Marvin’s performance and the film’s emotional core.
- Both reviews question the movie’s tonal balance, saying the satire often misses and the visual style feels too conventional for the material.
- FandomWire’s critique adds that recognizable adults such as Patrick Wilson, Molly Ringwald, Margaret Cho, and Bill Camp are largely underused.
- In an IndieWire studio interview, Mager and cast described the project as a way for young people to pursue healing through art in a generation raised on lockdown drills.