Blanchard makes such a winning loser that it's easy to identify with her woes, not least the boundary-trampling frankness of her single mother (a scene-stealing Megan Mulally).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2025

Crush is a return to form. It’s a teen rom com filled to the brim with yearning, the way they should be.

| Aug 6, 2023

All in all Crush offers a positive representation of LGBTQ+ youth even though it lacks substance

| Jul 26, 2023

It’s so refreshing to have a queer coming of age film, but where the film excels at two things. The first thing is joy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 14, 2023

Crush kind of feels like a 온라인카지노추천-MA DCOM in the most positive way (I mean, just look at its cast). It isn’t a bad movie at all. It’s the good kind of cringe, where you tense up for a minute, laugh it off, and just roll with it from then on.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 4, 2023

Crush doesn't do anything particularly revelatory to subvert its rom com tropes, but the easy going chemistry of the cast and queer WOC representation makes this an easy watch. Also: King Pun's art is delightful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2022

Crush keeps its story funny and light, exploring the happiness of being an LGBTQIA+ teenager.

| Jun 10, 2022

This is a well-intentioned movie with some solid actors and a refreshingly diverse cast who deserved fleshier characters and a more rounded story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2022

Life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows, but Crush reminds us that sometimes it absolutely is.

| May 21, 2022

Crush is a quirky comedy reminding us of what high school romance is all about – awkwardness and confusion and general weirdness...You might not fall in love with this movie, but you could well wind up with a bit of a crush.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 19, 2022

Crush is a movie that is determined to MAKE us believe, however, and to show us what life could be like for our children if we did. Thanks to its unmistakable sincerity and unshakable good will, it goes a long way toward succeeding.

| May 18, 2022

It isn’t a queer rom-com that’s hyper-focused on a coming-out story; it’s a coming-of-age comedy in which the main characters happen to be gay.

| May 12, 2022

Crush lays out the plain truth that it’s totally normal for young kids to be gay, and it’s totally normal for queer teens to talk about and have sex. It also gives them a happy ending, with the girl getting the girl.

| Original Score: A- | May 5, 2022

Its heart is in the right place, and its optimism about queer relationships -- hell, the future of America’s teenagers -- is refreshing. But it’s so joyous that it succumbs to blandness, feeling like an episode of a middling sitcom.

| May 5, 2022

The young actors are charming enough, yet outside of some scattered laughs, the film feels thinly sketched and emotionally calculated.

| May 4, 2022

The love story between Blanchard's Paige and Cravalho's A.J is actually really sweet. It's just folded into a not so memorable movie.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 3, 2022

A quippy script and sharp cast save Hulu's sweet and spicy, but clunky, high school girls-in-love comedy "Crush."

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2022

A funny, charming teen romantic comedy with a decent hook and a likable cast- a film not likely to appeal to supporters of the Don't Say Gay law.

| Original Score: B+ | May 2, 2022

As bland as the walls of Miller High School.

| Original Score: C | Apr 30, 2022

Sublime performances (particularly the always-adorable Blanchard), a sunny storyline, and sweetness

| Apr 30, 2022