Netflix’s YA Rowing Drama ‘Crew Girl’ Capsizes and Sinks: TV Review

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In Short: Beijing-based Hishow Entertainment is expanding its 'We Love Cinema' brand with recent acquisitions and re-releases, including the Sundance winner 'Josephine' and Ron Howard's 'Rush'.

Beijing-based Hishow Entertainment is expanding its 'We Love Cinema' brand with new acquisitions and re-releases, including the recent Sundance winner 'Josephine' and Singapore's 'Ah Girl', according to Deadline.

The company is also re-releasing Ron Howard's 2013 Formula 1 racing drama 'Rush', tapping into the Chinese audience's nostalgia for recent classics.

While the film 'Crew Girl' may not be a standout, it offers a standard-issue YA drama with a love triangle and a focus on the rowing program at Easton Prep, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

The film's attempts to build out the world outside of crew fall short, according to The Hollywood Reporter, making it just 'good enough' as a bingeable YA drama.

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There is no such thing as a bad Ellen Burstyn performance.
They are not all that different from Wéber’s script, which offers little more than a pencil sketch of who Brooke is.
To the film’s great fortune, Burstyn can do much of that heavy lifting herself in just a gaze or a pause.
The premiere shows us the inside of an Easton Prep classroom for the first and last time, and does the expository work of explaining that since this only recently coed institution has no girls’ rowing program for Teagan to join, her only way of getting on a boat is to serve as coxswain (the non-rowing member who helps steer and coordinate the team) for the boys.
As far as bingeable YA dramas go, Crew Girl is probably good enough.

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