“Dangerous Lies” is as Predictable as Can be
The film may be a thriller, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. If anything, I was bored and annoyed.

Two straight-A high school girls break free for a secret weekend, unknowingly attracting the attention of two emboldened incels.
The film may be a thriller, but I wasn’t thrilled by it. If anything, I was bored and annoyed.
I was able to sit down and talk with the director of the short film Dog Lover Anne-Sophie Bine as she discussed and how she came to be in film.
I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.
Telling a story about the French and Indian Wars from the perspective of the British prioritizes the perspective of the colonizers.
A family comedy that combines fantasy and normal school life.
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.