Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Inspired by her mom's rebellious past and a confident new friend, a shy 16-year-old publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.
Moxie is a well-meaning teen feminist comedy-drama that follows a fairly predictable arc of awakening and activism. The plot hits familiar coming-of-age beats without much subversion, and the cinematography is functional but unremarkable. The acting is competent across the board with Amy Poehler providing warmth in her directorial debut, but no performance truly elevates the material. The zine-publishing premise offers a mildly fresh framing device for a story about high school sexism, but the overall execution feels derivative of similar YA-adjacent stories. The ending resolves tidily and optimistically in line with genre expectations.