Aarcflick

Summering 2022 is the story of Four best friends about to start high school realize their lives are about to change forever. So the last weekend of the summer they set out to make the most of it. James Ponsoldt returns with his sixth feature film, following the catastrophic misfire that was 2017's star-studded tech thriller The Circle. As is often the case with expert filmmakers trying to shed high-profile flops, Ponsoldt's new film is a lo-fi, back-to-basics affair, but one that lacks the confident execution to deliver on his ambitions. It's a movie about dying. After the girls find the man's body, each of them returns to her nightly routines. It is here that we notice how different her family backgrounds really are. Each girl still proudly carries her parent's belief system, and as the film progresses, these different threads begin to pull the group apart. Whether it is spirituality or science, we see tension within the group where before there was only peace. It...