Looks That Kill (2020)

Looks That Kill: Directed by Kellen Moore. With Brandon Flynn, Tom Proctor, Annie Mumolo, Peter Scolari. The story of a teenage boy who deals with the ups and downs of being lethally attractive.

“TL;DR: If youu0026#39;ve loved The Fault in Our Stars and the sorts, you canu0026#39;t miss this; if you (like myself) hated it, you should still give this one a chance – you might be pleasantly surprised.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhenever I finish a movie, the first thing I do is to check online for reviews; I like to see other peopleu0026#39;s opinion about it, wheter they agree with mine or not. It makes for an enriching experience.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo imagine my surprise when, coming here after watching this movie, I found out that not only thereu0026#39;s not a single review about it, but also so few people have seen (the vote count as Iu0026#39;m writing is only at 177)! I mean, really? This is by no means a B movie (which usually have ten times as many ratings), and itu0026#39;s already been three days since it was released. For such a delightfully charming one, itu0026#39;s too much of an injustice, so hereu0026#39;s my attempt to repair that a tiny bit.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWatching the trailer you might be tricked into thinking this is a silly YA rom-com, and sure enought I begins that way. But it soon goes from silly to charming, from charming to heartbreaking… donu0026#39;t get me wrong, at its heart this is still very much a YA rom-com, with all of itu0026#39;s clichés and pitfalls, nothing groundbreaking. But the way it blend those with some more dense elements (one of them being almost too somber) feels so right that you canu0026#39;t help but be captured by it; Iu0026#39;ve mentioned The Fault in Our Stars at the beginning, but in this sense itu0026#39;s much more akin to Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA lot of it goes to the impeccable production and cast. Both protagonists (Flynn and Telles) are so natural that they manage to somehow hoover above youu0026#39;re average in-love teen couple. The supporting characters are also on spot, including some hilarious ones having little to no lines at all. But what impressed me the most was the special care given to the cinematography, which leverages the movie concept to create some really eye-caching close-ups. All of this combined with a lot of funny references to u0026#39;90s nerd culture. Considering that this is the first feature film of director Kellen Moore, itu0026#39;s even more impressive.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOf all of those tragic-teen-romance movies that have become a genre in and of itself, this is the only one that Iu0026#39;ve actually enjoyed. Give it a try – even if you donu0026#39;t like it as much, I think youu0026#39;ll agree that it deserves a LOT more attention than itu0026#39;s getting.”