Synopsis
A dethroned queen bee at a posh private high school strikes a secret deal with an unassuming new student to enact revenge on one another’s enemies.
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Cast
- Camila MendesDrea Torres
- Maya HawkeEleanor Levetan
- Austin AbramsMax Broussard
- Rish ShahRuss Lee
- Sarah Michelle GellarThe Headmistress
- Talia RyderGabbi Broussard
- Alisha BoeTara
- Ava CapriCarissa Jones
- Jonathan DavissElliot
- Paris BerelcMeghan
Recommendations
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If you’re looking for a typical teen movie riddled with clichés and stereotypes, keep scrolling through your Netflix queue. This daring dark comedy both pays homage to and deconstructs the ‘90s high school set films you know and love, and does so with deliciously satisfying results. - 80
The Guardian
Its outsized mean girl ruthlessness with a candy-coated shell, led by Mendes and Hawke’s commanding performances, is a biting, if overlong, good time. - 79
Paste Magazine
It’s got enough biting snark to hook viewers from the jump, and enough heart to keep them around until the end. - 75
RogerEbert.com
The characters are constructs who are so aware of themselves as constructs (and the plot, too) that there's really no reason why we should feel for them, but we do, thanks to the lead performances, the direction, and the kidding/not kidding vibe of the entire production. - 70
The New York Times
Do Revenge, directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, is a playful, sharp-fanged satire that feels like the ’90s teen comedy hammered into modern emojis: crown, knife, fire, winky face. - 67
The A.V. Club
While there are major missteps, overall its bright, spirited attitude and attractive, propulsive gusto power a delightfully wicked journey. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a slick-looking film with a gorgeous cast and a sprinkling of funny one-liners, but the dark comedy often falls flat, nearly every character is a one-dimensional cliché and the redemption story defies credibility, even in a well-dressed social satire. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
A clever mishmash of Hitchcockian and 1980s and ’90s high school movie sensibilities, the Netflix dark comedy Do Revenge falters when it tries to grow a heart.
