It's hammy, it's predictable, it's a little silly, but what YA musical isn't?

| Original Score: C | Mar 30, 2021

This is a film as tidy, transparent and kid-friendly as a square of Jell-O salad, and so squishily eager-to-please that it doesn't engage with its religious themes so much as tuck them into song lyrics to hover in the narrative like grapes.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 27, 2021

This innocuous but character-free tuner shamelessly copies and crosses the formulae of "High School Musical" and "Camp Rock" down to the last, sequel-prompting detail.

| Mar 26, 2021

This isn't an unwatchable movie, just an underachieving and forgettable one, and somehow that's more irritating than a disastrous swing for the fences would've been.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 26, 2021

[A] ludicrous, grating ploy for tacitly conservative audiences.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 26, 2021

Families will enjoy the exuberance and old-fashioned fun of the cast, clearly having as much fun as the teens they are portraying

| Original Score: B | Mar 26, 2021