Backspot

Name: Backspot
Genre: Drama
Released: May 31, 2024
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 74

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XYZ Films | Release Date: May 31, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: An ambitious cheerleader (Devery Jacobs) faces both new adversity and the increased drive for perfection and triumph when she and her girlfriend are selected for an all-star cheer squad and its demanding head coach (Evan Rachel Wood). With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her drive with her crippling anxiety as one wrong move willAn ambitious cheerleader (Devery Jacobs) faces both new adversity and the increased drive for perfection and triumph when she and her girlfriend are selected for an all-star cheer squad and its demanding head coach (Evan Rachel Wood). With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her drive with her crippling anxiety as one wrong move will bring her crashing to the ground.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Chris Knight

Jun 4, 2024

It’s wonderful for its restraint, and for the things it doesn’t do. Read full review

Sarah-Tai Black

Jun 4, 2024

An energetic coming-of-age film that pairs the tonalities of a rugged sports flick with the depth of a well-scripted drama, Backspot is a promising debut from Waterson that will leave audiences cheering. Read full review

Michael Talbot-Haynes

Jun 4, 2024

Backspot has the same punch as Run, Lola, Run. Just like that film, the thrills are time released into your system at critical points throughout your viewing. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Jun 4, 2024

You may think you know your sports movie tropes, but you’ve never seen them used quite this way — that is, within a queer cheerleading drama firmly focused on complex female characters — and Waterson’s Backspot delights in skewing such expectations for often (but not always) new ends. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

Jun 4, 2024

As a realistic portrayal of an all-consuming drive, it sticks the landing. Read full review

Angie Han

Jun 4, 2024

Jacobs‘ magnetic performance alerts us to every tiny miscalculation or epiphany along the way. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Jun 4, 2024

Its early execution strains and wobbles some, but “Backspot” sticks its landing. Read full review

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