There’s a point when a movie starts dropping too many references to other movies that the enthusiasm gets a little suspicious.
In director Thembi L.
Banks’ debut feature “Young.
Wild.
Free.”— the title styled as such for no reason in particular — a mysterious woman with “Euphoria” eye-makeup named Cassidy (Sierra Capri) suddenly starts spouting them with abandon about 30 minutes in.
“Did you know this is the diner from ‘Reservoir Dogs?,’” she says while digging into some pancakes at the diner from “Reservoir Dogs.” Over the course of the rest of the film’s running time, she proceeds to name drop “Dazed and Confused,” “Unforgiven,” and “Kill Bill.” Something is up.And something is indeed up in the drama, which is .
As the Letterboxd-friendly dialogue would imply: This is one you’ve seen before, and it’s sloppily executed.By the time the reveal comes around you’ve been
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