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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75RogerEbert.comChristy LemireRogerEbert.comChristy LemireDespite the familiar settings and tropes in director Sammi Cohen’s debut feature film, Crush feels refreshingly contemporary.
- 60Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe movie’s aggressive hipness can be a turnoff at times. But once it settles down into a more typical coming-of-age story, Crush becomes disarmingly sweet and relatable.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreUnfortunately, that’s exactly what the filmmakers hope, that you’ll be so swept up in “representation” that you won’t notice how generic the story is, and how dull and drab and laugh-starved its execution turns out to be.
- 50The New York TimesAmy NicholsonThe New York TimesAmy NicholsonIt is clear from the offset which sibling will win both Paige’s affection and the obligatory climactic smooch. The journey there can drag. More fresh is the movie’s sex-positive empathy.
- 50IGNSiddhant AdlakhaIGNSiddhant AdlakhaHulu’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.
- 50VarietyTomris LafflyVarietyTomris LafflyWhat’s jarring in Crush is the absence of some requisite dose of youthful mischief, a sense of stakes and perhaps even a lightly scandalous touch, integral to the spirit of many of the genre staples Cohen and co-writers Kirsten King and Casey Rackham attempt to revive on their own terms.