Mixtape Official

Mixtape is not here to reinvent the genre. If you’ve seen The Edge of Seventeen or Eighth Grade , you’ll recognize the beats: the lonely protagonist, the misunderstanding that threatens the new friendship, the climactic public scene where music saves the day. The grandmother character, too, is written as a trope (strict but secretly soft) before she’s given any real dimension.

Here’s a review of Mixtape (the 2021 coming-of-age film directed by Valerie Weiss), written in the style of a critic’s take. MIXTAPE

A warm hug that smells like old plastic and teen spirit. Mixtape is not here to reinvent the genre