FIGHT CLUB

A gentle teen learns to take a hit in this funny and imaginative film 

-  ZHANNA SLOR

“PEOPLE JUMP IN, you jump in. That’s the rule.” So says one of high schooler Miguel’s punch-happy pals at the start of this bawdy comedy flick. But Miguel (Tyler Dean Flores, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) has never jumped in. That realization is a shock to his three best friends—ex-boxer David (Christian Vunipola), scrappy Cass (Imani Lewis) and sharptongued Srini (Suraj Partha)—who swear they’ve seen the guy throw at least one punch. Later, when Miguel gets the upsetting news that he’s moving hours away from Syracuse with his family, instead of telling his friends, he decides to try to get into his first fight. Conveniently, he lives in a neighborhood where everyone, and we mean everyone, is always getting into a scrap.