Chalard games goeng (2017)

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Siskoid
Bad Genius is a Thai con/heist picture about high school kids cheating the Asian SAT system and as a fan of the genre, I loved the unusual focus. Now, I'm dead against cheating in academia, but the film doesn't necessarily disagree with me. It manages to be at once slick and stylish AND offer a complex take on what it means to cheat, or rather to help others cheat. Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying is more than up to the task of playing Lynn, our brainy protagonist, a girl who may be too smart for her own good, and comes to know it. The rest of the cast includes lots of affable young actors, who we track across about three years of school. This isn't Ocean's Academy (damn, but now I want to see that), where it's "one last heist", but rather a build-up, from their first cheat to their last. Short of taking one yourself, this is the most nervous you'll be about exams. Very fun, as any con movie has a right to be, but also heartfelt and mature in its ethical subtext. 5 years 7 months ago
DeNatale
Could have been a great film, good idea, good focus, but they filled it with rats and spies and ludicrous rethoric about the "evil of cheating".
You could manage to endure it at first but as the finale approaches it becomes utterly unbearable. 5 years 2 months ago