{"id":100646,"date":"2022-05-18T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/the-hit-new-netflix-movie-that-shot-straight-to-1\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T00:22:07","slug":"the-hit-new-netflix-movie-that-shot-straight-to-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/the-hit-new-netflix-movie-that-shot-straight-to-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The hit new Netflix movie that shot straight to #1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For all of the bad press that Netflix has accumulated in recent weeks \u2014 and boy, has there been a lot of it \u2014 it might have gotten lost among some people that the streamer, to put it simply, has still got the touch. It can release something on a Friday, like the new Rebel Wilson-led comedy<\/a> Senior Year<\/em>, and by Monday it will quite often be the #1 Netflix title in its category.<\/p>\n

Similarly, a new Netflix TV show that the streamer released on Friday, The Lincoln Lawyer<\/em>, did just as well over the weekend, rocketing to #1 on the streamer in the TV category. Top ranking aside, though, the response from critics and fans to Senior Year<\/em> (which is about a high school cheerleader who wakes up from a 20-year coma) is another matter entirely. And we\u2019ll come to that, among other things, below.<\/p>\n

Senior Year<\/em> movie 2022<\/h2>\n

Directed by Alex Hardcastle, here\u2019s the Senior Year<\/em> logline from Netflix. \u201cAfter a cheerleader falls off a pyramid and into a coma, she awakens 20 years later (present-day) in the body of a 37-year-old woman. But having only aged physically and knowing nothing else, she returns to reclaim her seat at the popular table and win the prom queen crown that has eluded her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sounds a little too 13 Going on 30<\/em> for my taste, but who am I to judge. If this tells you anything about the movie and the heart behind it, one of the things I appreciated in Netflix\u2019s press packet for Senior Year<\/em> was the \u201cSenior Spotlight\u201d page included with the material. On it, all of the actors have written affectionate messages, senior yearbook-style, addressed to Rebel Wilson (who plays the main character here, cheerleader Stephanie Conway).<\/p>\n

\u201cRebel,\u201d writes her castmate Molly Brown, \u201cyou\u2019ve been an absolutely stunning person to work with! Thanks for making my twenty *****th birthday such a blast on set and for brunch in the city! You\u2019re well worth a quarantine!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rotten Tomatoes reviews<\/h2>\n

Unfortunately, this movie seems to once again suffer from a particular affliction inherent in scores of Netflix movies of late. Namely, it\u2019s that even when they\u2019re passable, they\u2019re quite often forgettable, a la something like Red Notice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s debatable, the degree to which Senior Year<\/em> even counts as passable or not. The critics, for their part, certainly don\u2019t think this movie made the grade.<\/p>\n

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Sam Richardson as Seth and Rebel Wilson as Stephanie Conway in Netflix\u2019s movie \u201cSenior Year.\u201d Image source: Boris Martin\/Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over at Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, the film currently has an abysmal 29 percent critics score, based on 34 reviews. \u201cYou could be watching Easy A instead of this,\u201d a Decider<\/em> reviewer<\/a> laments, referencing Emma Stone\u2019s 2010 movie. \u201cWhich is more like Easy D-.\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as audiences go, however, the streamer\u2019s score is much better on that front. Senior Year<\/em> currently has a 61 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on more than 100 user ratings.<\/p>\n

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