Review: 'Find Your Friends' on Shudder — A Disappointingly Shallow Girls' Trip Thriller
By
John Serba
Toasted golden, schmeared with insight. Top of the rack.
Summary
A review of the Shudder film 'Find Your Friends,' directed by Izabel Pakzad and starring Helena Howard and Bella Thorne. The article critiques the film as a frustratingly shallow party-girl cautionary tale about five college-age women on a trip who make poor decisions in a predatory world. The reviewer questions the film's thematic and tonal coherence, suggesting it plays more like 'Bad Decisions: The Movie' than a cohesive thriller.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI'm tempted to retitle Find Your Friends (now on Shudder) Bad Decisions: The Movie.
The directorial debut of Izabel Pakzad ends up playing as a party-girl cautionary tale of sorts, but whether it functions as anything thematically or tonally coherent is the primary issue here.
Helena Howard and Bella Thorne headline this frustratingly shallow endeavor.
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