Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Mile End Kicks’ on Netflix, Starring Barbie Ferreira as a Young Music Critic Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Mile End Kicks (now on Netflix) is likely a labor of love for filmmaker Chandler Levack. The rom-com-ish movie is rooted in Levack’s real-life experience, casting Barbie Ferreira as a budding arts journalist in her early 20s, a situation that boils itself down like so: She finds herself/comes of age in the male-dominated world of music criticism by, well, getting stuck in a love triangle with two dudes in the same band.
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Mile End Kicks (now on Netflix) is likely a labor of love for filmmaker Chandler Levack. The rom-com-ish movie is rooted in Levack’s real-life experience, casting Barbie Ferreira as a budding arts journalist in her early 20s, a situation that boils itself down like so: She finds herself/comes of age in the male-dominated world of music criticism by, well, getting stuck in a love triangle with two dudes in the same band. So the writer/director — who recently enjoyed the largest platform for her work yet by helming Netflix/Happy Madison comedy Roommates — mixes sexual politics and indie-rock nerdery via that’s-so-awkward comedio-dramatic situations, aiming for the sweet spot between thematic specificity and broad appeal. Now let’s see if it succeeds.
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- Mile End Kicks (now on Netflix) is likely a labor of love for filmmaker Chandler Levack. The rom-com-ish movie is rooted in Levack’s real-life experience, casting Barbie Ferreira as a budding arts journalist in her early 20s, a situation that boils itself down like so: She finds herself/comes of age in the male-dominated world of music criticism by, well, getting stuck in a love triangle with two dudes in the same band.
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Mile End Kicks’ on Netflix, Starring Barbie Ferreira as a Young Music Critic Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
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