Honor Society (2022)
Directed by Oran Zegman
Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.
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It’s within the same vein of storytelling as the 2004 classic, Mean Girls .
Borrowing a few characteristics from Alexander Payne’s formidable high school classic “Election” blended with the sarcastic wit of “Mean Girls,” “Honor Society” doesn’t buck the trend around classic high school cinematic troupes (social cliques, sexuality, and hooking up) but it finds a winning personality in Angourie Rice (“Mare of Easttown”) who earnestly guides the viewer along her character’s trip atop the high-school food chain as she cements a life-long bid to get into Harvard.
If this were a Netflix release (why it wasn’t, when it shares a producer with the streamer’s own “To All the Boys I Loved Before” and “The Kissing Booth'' plus one of the principals is a lead from “Stranger Things,” is beyond me) there would at least be some awareness.